fruit

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Synonyms

seed

nut

result

berry

tree

🌳

plant

🌱

product

berries

bear fruit

produce

pear

🍐

fructify

yield

fruits

egg

🥚

produce fruit

crop

apple

🍎

grain

nuts

plum

outcome

flower

🌸

bear

🐻

bud

effect

ball

baobab fruit

heart

❤️

harvest

seeds

real

consequence

round

fermentation

eyeball

etc

emolument

child

🧒

boon

dry

manufacture

drupe

body

bead

lump

liquid

maturation

juice

drink

🥤

Translations

fruit

Frucht

fruta

frutto

fruto

vrucht

Obst

fruta

frutta

καρπός

fruit

fruto

meyve

fruit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɹuːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fruyt

Cognate with Latin: fruor

Cognate with English: brook

Cognate with German: brauchen

In summary

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.
In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).

Sentences

These are social birds which eat mainly small fruit and only rarely take insects .

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