fruit vs capitulum

capitulum vs fruit

fruit and capitulum both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but capitulum is not a verb.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
capitulum: fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

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, 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)	capitulum (noun)
an amount of a product	a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
the consequence of some effort or action	fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant	an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree

fruit (verb)	capitulum (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and capitulum

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