olive vs stone fruit

stone fruit vs olive

olive and stone fruit both are nouns.

olive is an adjective but stone fruit is not an adjective.

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

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

olive: one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
stone fruit: fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube

Other hypernyms of olive include relish, drupe.

olive (noun)	stone fruit (noun)
a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation	fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube
one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
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

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

Difference between olive and stone fruit

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