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fruit

/fɹuːt/ /fɹut/

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noun

(often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.

Examples :

"The fruit from the farmer's market was delicious and healthy. "

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noun

Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), 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 the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

Examples :

"My grandma's rhubarb pie is delicious; rhubarb, though technically a vegetable, is often used as a fruit in baking. "

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noun

A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:

Examples :

"The apple is a fruit, a product of the tree's pollination. "

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noun

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

Examples :

"His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise."

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noun

Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

Examples :

"the fresh-squeezed fruit juice; a fruit salad; an artificial fruit flavor; a fruit tree; a fruit bat"

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noun

A homosexual man; an effeminate man.

Examples :

"I can't create a sentence using "fruit" in the sense of "a homosexual man" because that usage is considered offensive and outdated. It is no longer appropriate to use such language. "

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noun

Offspring from a sexual union.

Examples :

"Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."

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verb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Examples :

"The old apple tree finally fruited this year, producing a large crop of apples. "

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