fruit vs prairie gourd

prairie gourd vs fruit

fruit and prairie gourd both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but prairie gourd is not a verb.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
prairie gourd: small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant

Other hyponyms of fruit include edible fruit, juniper berry, May apple, achene, 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)	prairie gourd (noun)
an amount of a product	perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
the consequence of some effort or action	small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

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

Difference between fruit and prairie gourd

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