fruit vs berry

fruit and berry both are nouns.

fruit and berry both are verbs.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
berry: a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)

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, 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)	berry (noun)
an amount of a product	any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
the consequence of some effort or action	a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

fruit (verb)	berry (verb)
bear fruit	pick or gather berries
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and berry

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