berry vs cranberry

cranberry vs berry

berry and cranberry both are nouns.

berry is a verb but cranberry is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
berry	Yes	No	Yes	No
cranberry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cranberry is a hyponym of berry; that is, cranberry is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than berry:

berry: any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
cranberry: very tart red berry used for sauce or juice

Other hyponyms of berry include bilberry, European blueberry, whortleberry, huckleberry, blueberry, boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen, cowberry, lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry, currant, blackberry, boysenberry, dewberry, loganberry, raspberry, juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, strawberry, hackberry, sugarberry, persimmon, acerola, barbados cherry, surinam cherry, West Indian cherry, mulberry.

berry (noun)	cranberry (noun)
any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves	very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)	any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries

berry (verb)	cranberry (verb)
pick or gather berries

Difference between berry and cranberry

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