fruit vs olive

fruit and olive both are nouns.

fruit is not an adjective while olive is an adjective.

fruit is a verb but olive is not a verb.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
olive: small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

Other hyponyms of fruit include edible fruit, juniper berry, May apple, achene, gourd, prairie gourd, blue fig, quandong, acorn, 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)	olive (noun)
an amount of a product	a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation
the consequence of some effort or action	one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant	evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
	small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
	hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

fruit (adjective)	olive (adjective)
	of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

fruit (verb)	olive (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit

Difference between fruit and olive

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