fruit vs gourd

fruit and gourd both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but gourd is not a verb.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
gourd: any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

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

fruit (noun)	gourd (noun)
an amount of a product	bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
the consequence of some effort or action	any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant	any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

fruit (verb)	gourd (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and gourd

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