fruit vs accessory fruit

accessory fruit vs fruit

fruit and accessory fruit both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but accessory fruit is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fruit	Yes	No	Yes	No
accessory fruit	Yes	No	No	No

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
accessory fruit: fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry

Other hyponyms of fruit include edible fruit, juniper berry, May apple, 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, pseudocarp, buckthorn berry, yellow berry, cubeb, schizocarp.

fruit (noun)	accessory fruit (noun)
an amount of a product	fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry
the consequence of some effort or action
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

fruit (verb)	accessory fruit (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and accessory fruit

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