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fruit
(fro͞ot)n. pl. fruit or fruits
1.
a. 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.
b. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
c. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.
2. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
3. A plant crop or product: the fruits of the earth.
4. Result; outcome: the fruit of their labor.
5. Offspring; progeny.
6. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
7. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
intr. & tr.v. fruit·ed, fruit·ing, fruits
To produce or cause to produce fruit.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frūctus, enjoyment, fruit, from past participle of fruī, to enjoy.]
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fruit
(fruːt)n
1. (Botany) botany the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing one or more seeds. It may be dry, as in the poppy, or fleshy, as in the peach
2. (Botany) any fleshy part of a plant, other than the above structure, that supports the seeds and is edible, such as the strawberry
3. (Botany) the specialized spore-producing structure of plants that do not bear seeds
4. (Botany) any plant product useful to man, including grain, vegetables, etc
5. (often plural) the result or consequence of an action or effort
6. old-fashioned slang Brit chap; fellow: used as a term of address
7. slang chiefly Brit a person considered to be eccentric or insane
8. slang chiefly US and Canadian a male homosexual
9. archaic offspring of man or animals; progeny
vb
to bear or cause to bear fruit
[C12: from Old French, from Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, from frūī to enjoy]
ˈfruitˌlike adj
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fruit
(frut)n., pl. fruits, (esp. collectively) fruit,
n.
1. the edible part of a plant developed from a flower and containing one or more seeds with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.
2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.
3. any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
4. the spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.
5. anything produced or accruing; product, result, or effect; return or profit.
6. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. (a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.)
v.i., v.t. 7. to bear or cause to bear fruit.
[1125–75; Middle English < Old French < Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, derivative of fruī to enjoy the produce of]
fruit′like`, adj.
usage: Definition 6 is a slur and should be avoided. It is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as insulting.
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fruit
(fro͞ot) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant that contains the seeds. Fruits can be dry or fleshy. Berries, nuts, grains, pods, and drupes are fruits. ♦ Fruits that consist of ripened ovaries alone, such as the tomato and pea pod, are called true fruits. ♦ Fruits that consist of ripened ovaries and other parts such as the receptacle or bracts, as in the apple and cucumber, are called accessory fruits or , false fruits. See Note at berry.
Usage To most of us, a fruit is a plant part that is eaten as a dessert or snack because it is sweet, but to someone who studies botany a fruit is a mature ovary of a plant, and as such it may or may not taste sweet. All species of flowering plants produce fruits that contain seeds. A peach, for example, contains a pit that can grow into a new peach tree, while the seeds known as peas can grow into another pea vine. To a botanist, apples, peaches, peppers, tomatoes, pea pods, cucumbers, and winged maple seeds are all fruits. A vegetable is simply part of a plant that is grown primarily for food. Thus, the leaf of spinach, the root of a carrot, the flower of broccoli, and the stalk of celery are all vegetables. In everyday, nonscientific talk we make the distinction between sweet plant parts (fruits) and nonsweet plant parts (vegetables). This is why we speak of peppers and cucumbers and squash—all fruits in the eyes of a botanist—as vegetables.
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fruit
, vegetable - Fruit is the name given to those plants that have an ovary used for food; vegetable is the name given to a large category of herbaceous plants with parts used for food.See also related terms for vegetable.
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fruit
Fruit is usually an uncountable noun. Oranges, bananas, grapes, and apples are all fruit.
You should eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
They import fruit from Australia.
You can refer to an individual orange, banana, etc as a fruit.
Each fruit contains many juicy seeds.
However, this use is not common. You usually refer to an individual orange, banana, etc as a piece of fruit.
Try to eat five pieces of fruit a day.
Don't use a plural form of fruit to refer to several oranges, bananas, etc. Instead you use fruit as an uncountable noun. For example, you say 'I'm going to the market to buy some fruit'. Don't say 'I'm going to the market to buy some fruits'.
There was a bowl with some fruit in it.
They gave me fruit, cake and wine.
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fruit
Past participle: fruited
Gerund: fruiting
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fruit
A ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing seeds.
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| Noun | 1. |  fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plantedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh juniper berry - berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction May apple - edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant achene - small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall gourd - any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds prairie gourd - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant acorn - fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base olive - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil wild cherry - the fruit of the wild cherry tree marasca - small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made hagberry - small cherry much liked by birds chokecherry - the fruit of the chokecherry tree rowanberry - decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree fruitlet - a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit seed - a small hard fruit berry - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple drupe, stone fruit - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube false fruit, pome - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part pyxidium, pyxis - fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released accessory fruit, pseudocarp - fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry buckthorn berry, yellow berry - fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments cubeb - spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes schizocarp - a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed |
| 2. | fruit - an amount of a product product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" | |
| 3. | fruit - the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" aftermath, consequence - the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | |
| Verb | 1. | fruit - cause to bear fruit |
| 2. | fruit - bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year" |
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fruit
noun
2. (often plural) result, reward, outcome, end result, return, effect, benefit, profit, advantage, consequence The findings are the fruit of more than three years research.
Quotations
"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit" Bible: St. Matthew
"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit" Bible: St. Matthew
Proverbs
"He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree"
"He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree"
Fruits
ananas, anchovy pear, apple, apricot, avocado, avocado pear, or (U.S.) alligator pear, babaco, banana, Bartlett pear, beach plum, bergamot pear, berry, Beurre Hardy pear, bigarreau cherry, bilberry, blaeberry, huckleberry, whortleberry, or (Irish) fraughan, blackberry or (Scot.) bramble, black cherry, blackcurrant, blackheart cherry, blood orange, blueberry, Bon Chretien pear, boxberry, boysenberry, breadfruit, calamondin, cantaloup or cantaloupe melon, carambola or star fruit, casaba or cassaba melon, Charentais melon, chayote, chempaduk, cherry, chokecherry, choko, citron, clementine, cloudberry or (Canad.) bakeapple, Concord grape, Conference pear, cranberry, custard apple, damson, date, dewberry, durian or durion, elderberry, fig, Galia melon, gooseberry or (informal) goosegog, grape, grapefruit, greengage, guava, hackberry, heart cherry, honeydew melon, jackfruit or jack, Jaffa orange, kiwano (trademark), Kiwi fruit or Chinese gooseberry, kumquat or cumquat, lemon, lime, lychee, litchi, lichee, or lichi, loganberry, longan, loquat or Japan plum, mandarin, mango, mangosteen, May apple, medlar, melon, minneola, morello cherry, mulberry, muskmelon, nashi or Asian pear, navel orange, nectarine, Ogen melon, olive, orange, ortanique, papaw or pawpaw, papaya, passion fruit or granadilla, peach, pear, pepper, physalis, Cape gooseberry, or strawberry tomato, pineapple, plantain, plum, pomegranate, pomelo or shaddock, prickly pear, prune, pumpkin, Queensland blue, quince, raisin, rambutan, raspberry, redcurrant, rockmelon, salmonberry, sapota, sapodilla, sapodilla plum, or naseberry, saskatoon, satsuma, Seville orange, serviceberry, sharon fruit or persimmon, sloe, snowberry, sour cherry, sour gourd, soursop, star-apple, strawberry, sultana, sweet cherry, sweetie, sweetsop, tamarillo or tree tomato, tamarind, tangelo, tangerine or (S. African) naartje, tayberry, tomato or (archaic) love apple, UGLI (trademark), victoria or victoria plum, watermelon, white currant, Williams pear, winter melon, youngberryCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
fruit
noun2. Something brought about by a cause:
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Translations
ثَمَرثَمَرَه، نتيجَهفاكِهَةنتيجَه
ovoceplodrodit
frugtbære frugt
frukto
hedelmä
फल
voće
gyümölcs
buah
ávöxturávöxtur, árangur, afraksturbera ávöxtfaggialdin
果物
과일
fructus
derėtiišsipildymastuščiaivaisinisvaisių
augļiauglisdot augļusrezultāts
fructrod
plodplodiť
sadežplodsad
fruktbögfikus
ผลไม้
плідфрукт
trái cây
fruit
[fruːt]A. N
1. (gen, Bot) → fruto m; (= piece of fruit) → fruta f
would you like some fruit? → ¿quieres fruta?
to be in fruit [tree, bush] → haber dado or echado fruto, tener fruta
the fruits of the sea → los productos del mar
to bear fruit (lit, fig) → dar fruto
would you like some fruit? → ¿quieres fruta?
to be in fruit [tree, bush] → haber dado or echado fruto, tener fruta
the fruits of the sea → los productos del mar
to bear fruit (lit, fig) → dar fruto
2. fruits (fig) (= benefits) the fruits of one's labour → los frutos del trabajo
to enjoy the fruits of one's success → disfrutar de los frutos del éxito
to enjoy the fruits of one's success → disfrutar de los frutos del éxito
3. (US) (= male homosexual) → maricón m
4. (o.f.) (as term of address) hello, old fruit! → ¡hola, compadre!
B. VI → dar fruto
C. CPD fruit basket N → frutero m, canasto m de la fruta
fruit cocktail N → macedonia f de frutas
fruit cup N → sangría f
fruit dish N → frutero m
fruit drop N → bombón m de fruta
fruit farm N → granja f frutícola or hortofrutícola
fruit farmer N → fruticultor(a) m/f, granjero/a m/f frutícola or hortofrutícola
fruit farming N → fruticultura f
fruit fly N → mosca f de la fruta
fruit grower N → fruticultor(a) m/f, granjero/a m/f frutícola or hortofrutícola
fruit growing N → fruticultura f
fruit gum N (Brit) → gominola f
fruit juice N → zumo m or jugo m de frutas
fruit knife N → cuchillo m de la fruta
fruit machine N (Brit) → máquina f tragaperras
fruit salad N → macedonia f de frutas
fruit salts NPL → sal f de fruta(s)
fruit tree N → árbol m frutal
fruit cocktail N → macedonia f de frutas
fruit cup N → sangría f
fruit dish N → frutero m
fruit drop N → bombón m de fruta
fruit farm N → granja f frutícola or hortofrutícola
fruit farmer N → fruticultor(a) m/f, granjero/a m/f frutícola or hortofrutícola
fruit farming N → fruticultura f
fruit fly N → mosca f de la fruta
fruit grower N → fruticultor(a) m/f, granjero/a m/f frutícola or hortofrutícola
fruit growing N → fruticultura f
fruit gum N (Brit) → gominola f
fruit juice N → zumo m or jugo m de frutas
fruit knife N → cuchillo m de la fruta
fruit machine N (Brit) → máquina f tragaperras
fruit salad N → macedonia f de frutas
fruit salts NPL → sal f de fruta(s)
fruit tree N → árbol m frutal
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
fruit
[ˈfruːt] n
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
fruit
n
(as collective) → Obst nt; (Bot, fig) → Frucht f; is it a fruit or a vegetable? → ist es Obst oder Gemüse?; what is your favourite (Brit) or favorite (US) fruit? → welches Obst magst du am liebsten?; would you like some or a piece of fruit? → möchten Sie etwas Obst?; the fruits of the earth → die Früchte pl → des Feldes; to bear fruit (lit, fig) → Früchte tragen; the fruit(s) of my labour/success → die Früchte pl → meiner Arbeit/meines Erfolgs; this project is the first fruit of our cooperation → dieses Projekt ist die erste Frucht unserer Zusammenarbeit (geh)
fruit
:fruit bat
n → Flughund m
fruit bowl
n → Obstschale f
fruitcake
n → englischer Kuchen; (esp Brit inf: = eccentric) → Spinner(in) m(f) (inf); as nutty as a fruit (esp Brit inf) → total verrückt
fruit cocktail
n → Obstsalat m
fruit dish
n → Obstteller m
fruit drop
n → Drops m, → Früchtebonbon m or nt
fruit
:fruit farmer
n → Obstbauer m → /-bäuerin f
fruit farming
n → Obstanbau m
fruit fly
n → Fruchtfliege f, → Taufliege f
fruit
:fruit machine
n (Brit) → Spielautomat m
fruit sugar
n → Fruchtzucker m
fruit tree
n → Obstbaum m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
fruit
[fruːt] n (collectively) → frutta (Bot) → fruttowould you like some fruit? → vuoi della frutta?
to bear fruit → dare frutti (fig) → dare frutto
the fruits of one's labour (fig) → i frutti del proprio lavoro
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
fruit
(fruːt) noun1. the part of a plant that produces the seed, especially when eaten as food. The fruit of the vine is the grape.
2. a result; something gained as a result of hard work etc. the fruit of his hard work.
verb to produce fruit. This tree fruits early.
ˈfruitful adjective producing (good) results. a fruitful meeting.
fruition (fruˈiʃən) noun an actual result; the happening of something that was thought of, hoped for etc. Her dreams came to fruition.
ˈfruitless adjective useless; with no results. a fruitless attempt.
ˈfruitlessly adverbˈfruity adjective
of or like fruit. a fruity taste; a fruity drink.
fruit is a collective noun taking a singular verb: Fruit is good for you ; The tree bears fruit (not fruits ).
The plural fruits is used in talking about different types of fruit: oranges, mangoes and other fruits .
The plural fruits is used in talking about different types of fruit: oranges, mangoes and other fruits .
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
fruit
→ فاكِهَة ovoce frugt Frucht φρούτο fruta hedelmä fruit voće frutta 果物 과일 fruit frukt owoc fruta фрукты frukt ผลไม้ meyve trái cây 水果Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
fruit
n. fruta;
v.
to eat ___ -s → comer ___ -s.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
fruit
n (pl fruit o fruits) fruta; citric — fruta cítricaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.