drupe vs cherry

drupe and cherry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drupe	Yes	No	No	No
cherry	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

drupe: fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube
cherry: a red fruit with a single hard stone

Other hyponyms of drupe include almond, peach, plum, elderberry, Chinese date, Chinese jujube, jujube, olive, drupelet.

drupe (noun)	cherry (noun)
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube	a red the color of ripe cherries
	a red fruit with a single hard stone
	any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
	wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

drupe (adjective)	cherry (adjective)
	of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies