stone fruit vs cherry

stone fruit and cherry both are nouns.

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

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

stone fruit: fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube
cherry: a red fruit with a single hard stone

Other hyponyms of stone fruit include almond, peach, plum, elderberry, Chinese date, Chinese jujube, jujube, olive, drupelet.

stone fruit (noun)	cherry (noun)
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube	a red the color of ripe cherries
	a red fruit with a single hard stone
	any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
	wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

stone fruit (adjective)	cherry (adjective)
	of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies