fruit
/fɹuːt/
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically; The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization
- plural
- fruits
Meanings
- 1
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
Tom eats nothing but fruit.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
They eat fruit for breakfast.
Tatoeba · araneo · CC BY 2.0 FR
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The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization — A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
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Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary
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Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.; A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit
- 5
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs — A product of fertilization in a plant, specificallyrare
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An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous resultrare
- 7
Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruitrare
- 8
A homosexual man, especially an effeminate onerare
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An effeminate manrare
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Offspring from a sexual unionrare