Fruit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
  • n. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
  • n. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.
  • n. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
  • n. A plant crop or product: the fruits of the earth.
  • n. Result; outcome: the fruit of their labor.
  • n. Offspring; progeny.
  • n. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
  • n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
  • v. To produce or cause to produce fruit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A positive end result or reward of labour or effort.
  • n. Offspring from a sexual union.
  • n. A homosexual or effeminate man.
  • v. To produce fruit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
  • n. The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
  • n. The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
  • n. The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
  • n. The produce of animals; offspring; young.
  • n. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect.
  • verb-intransitive. To bear fruit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In a general sense, any product of vegetable growth useful to men or animals, as grapes, figs, corn, cotton, flax, and all cultivated plants.
  • n. In a more limited sense, the reproductive product of a tree or other plant; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds, as wheat, rye, oats, apples, pears, nuts, etc.
  • n. In a still more limited sense, an edible succulent product of a plant, normally covering and including the seeds, as the apple, orange, lemon, peach, pear, plum, a berry, a melon, etc.; in a collective sense, such products in the aggregate.
  • n. In botany, the matured ovary of a plant, consisting of the seeds and their pericarp, and including whatever may be incorporated with it; also, the spores of cryptogams and the organs accessory to them.
  • n. The produce of animals; offspring; young: as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
  • n. A product in general; anything produced by or resulting from effort of any kind, or by or from any cause; outcome, effect, result, or consequence: as, the fruits of victory; the fruit of folly.
  • To produce fruit; come into bearing.
  • To bring into fruit under cultivation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause to bear fruit
  • v. bear fruit
  • n. an amount of a product
  • n. the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
  • n. the consequence of some effort or action
  • Verb Form
    fruited    fruitfulness    fruiting    fruits   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bear    turn-out    product    production    aftermath    consequence   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    offspring    young    fructify    bear   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beirut    Bute    Butte    Jute    Root    Shute    absolut    acute    astute    boot   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vegetable    flower    seed    meat    wine    food    fish    egg    corn    juice