fruit vs May apple

May apple vs fruit

fruit and May apple both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but May apple is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fruit	Yes	No	Yes	No
May apple	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, May apple is a hyponym of fruit; that is, May apple is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fruit:

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
May apple: edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant

Other hyponyms of fruit include edible fruit, juniper berry, achene, gourd, prairie gourd, blue fig, quandong, acorn, olive, hip, rose hip, rosehip, wild cherry, marasca, hagberry, chokecherry, rowanberry, buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut, capitulum, ear, spike, fruitlet, seed, berry, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp, drupe, stone fruit, false fruit, pome, pod, seedpod, pyxidium, pyxis, accessory fruit, pseudocarp, buckthorn berry, yellow berry, cubeb, schizocarp.

fruit (noun)	May apple (noun)
an amount of a product	North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit
the consequence of some effort or action	edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

fruit (verb)	May apple (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and May apple

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