fruit vs ear

fruit and ear both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but ear is not a verb.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
ear: 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, capitulum, 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)	ear (noun)
an amount of a product	the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
the consequence of some effort or action	the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant	good hearing
	attention to what is said
	fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

fruit (verb)	ear (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and ear

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