fruit
- fruit
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I. noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from frut, fruit, from Latin fructus fruit, use, from frui to enjoy, have the use of — more at brook
Date: 12th century
1.
a. a product of plant growth (as grain, vegetables, or cotton) <
the fruits of the field
>
b.
(1) the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant; especially one having a sweet pulp associated with the seed <the fruit of the tree
>
(2) a succulent plant part (as the petioles of a rhubarb plant) used chiefly in a dessert or sweet course
c. a dish, quantity, or diet of fruits <live on fruit
>
d. a product of fertilization in a plant with its modified envelopes or appendages; specifically the ripened ovary of a seed plant and its contents
e. the flavor or aroma of fresh fruit in mature wine
2. offspring, progeny
3.
a. the state of bearing fruit <a tree in fruit
>
b. the effect or consequence of an action or operation ; product, result <the fruits of our labor
>
4. usually disparaging a male homosexual
• fruited adjective
II. verb
Date: 14th century
intransitive verb
to bear fruit
transitive verb
to cause to bear fruit
New Collegiate Dictionary.
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