fruit

Meaning

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.

seed

yield

produce fruit

baobab fruit

eat meat

consequence of one’s action

preserved meat

mulberry bush

produce results

round object

matter of chance

stone of fruit

wild fruit

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɹuːt/

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.