gourd vs fruit

gourd and fruit both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fruit is a hypernym of gourd; that is, fruit is a word with a broader meaning than gourd:

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

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