fruit in English dictionary

  • fruit

    Meanings and definitions of "fruit"

    • (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
    • Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
    • A positive end result or reward of labour or effort.
    • Offspring from a sexual union.
    • (colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
    • To produce fruit.
    • noun
      (botany)
      The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
    • noun
      Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
    • noun
      An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
    • noun
      Offspring from a sexual union.
    • noun
      (colloquial, derogatory)
      A homosexual or effeminate man.
    • verb
      To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
    • part of plant
    • food
    • figuratively: positive end result or reward of labour or effort
    • figuratively: child of a marriage
    • offensive slang: homosexual or effeminate man
    • A botanical fruit that can be eaten raw used as food
    • fruit (of)
    • A fully matured plant ovary with or without other floral or shoot parts united with it at maturity.
    • noun
      an amount of a product
    • noun
      the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
    • noun
      the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
    • verb
      bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
    • verb
      cause to bear fruit

    Synonyms of "fruit" in English dictionary

    bear, aftermath, yield are the top synonyms of "fruit" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of fruit

    • blm  bez liczby mnogiej lm  liczba mnoga fruits
    • fruit ( third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited)
    • fruit ( countable and uncountable;  plural  fruits) ( see Usage notes for discussion of plural)
    • fruit (countable and uncountable, plural fruits) (see Usage notes for discussion of plural)
    • fruit (third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited)
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