fruit vs buffalo nut

buffalo nut vs fruit

fruit and buffalo nut both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but buffalo nut is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fruit	Yes	No	Yes	No
buffalo nut	Yes	No	No	No

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
buffalo nut: oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood

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, 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)	buffalo nut (noun)
an amount of a product	shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
the consequence of some effort or action	oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

fruit (verb)	buffalo nut (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and buffalo nut

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