fruit vs seed

fruit and seed both are nouns.

fruit and seed both are verbs.

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

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

fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
seed: a small hard fruit

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, ear, spike, fruitlet, 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)	seed (noun)
an amount of a product	the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
the consequence of some effort or action	anything that provides inspiration for later work
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant	one of the outstanding players in a tournament
	a small hard fruit
	a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

fruit (verb)	seed (verb)
bear fruit	inoculate with microorganisms
cause to bear fruit	remove the seeds from
	sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
	distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
	go to seed; shed seeds
	place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
	bear seeds
	help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

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