fruit

Signification

Noun

1. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
2. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
3. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
7. Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
8. (colloquial) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man.
9. Offspring from a sexual union.
10. (informal) A crazy person.

Verb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fɹuːt/

Étymologie

Etymology tree
Latin frūctus
Old French fruitbor.
Middle English fruyt
English fruit
From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Old English wæstm.

Phrases

The cuttings are usually cultivars , selected both for yield and quality of fruit .

Les boutures sont généralement des cultivars, sélectionnés à la fois pour le rendement et la qualité des fruits.