berry vs strawberry

strawberry vs berry

berry and strawberry both are nouns.

berry is a verb but strawberry is not a verb.

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

As nouns, strawberry is a hyponym of berry; that is, strawberry 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
strawberry: sweet fleshy red fruit

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

berry (noun)	strawberry (noun)
any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves	a soft red birthmark
a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)	sweet fleshy red fruit
	any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry

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

Difference between berry and strawberry

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