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fruit

[froot]

noun, plural fruits, (especially collectively

) fruit, verb

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1.	any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.

2.	the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.

3.	the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.

4.	the spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.

5.	anything produced or accruing; product, result, or effect; return or profit: the fruits of one's labors.

6.	Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a male homosexual.

–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

7.	to bear or cause to bear fruit: a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.

Origin:
1125–75; ME < OF < L frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, equiv. to frūg-, var. s. of fruī to enjoy the produce of + -tus suffix of v. action

Related forms:

fruitlike, adjective

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fruit (frōōt)

n. pl. fruit or fruits

1. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
2. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
3. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.
The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
A plant crop or product: the fruits of the earth.
Result; outcome: the fruit of their labor.
Offspring; progeny.
A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

intr. & tr.v. fruit·ed, fruit·ing, fruits
To produce or cause to produce fruit.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frūctus, enjoyment, fruit, from past participle of fruī, to enjoy.]

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Fruit

Fruit\, n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See Brook, v. t., and cf. Fructify, Frugal.]

1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.

Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof. --Ex. xxiii. 10.

2. (Hort.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

3. (Bot.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

Note: Fruits are classified as fleshy, drupaceous, and -dry. Fleshy fruits include berries, gourds, and melons, orangelike fruita and pomes; drupaceous fruits are stony within and fleshy without, as peaches, plums, and chercies;and dry fruits are further divided into achenes, follicles, legumes, capsules, nuts, and several other kinds.

4. (Bot.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

6. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown. --Shak.

6. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

The fruit of rashness. --Shak.

What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. --Burke.

They shall eat the fruit of their doings. --Is. iii 10.

The fruits of this education became visible. --Macaulay.

Note: Fruit is frequently used adjectively, signifying of, for, or pertaining to a fruit or fruits; as, fruit bud; fruit frame; fruit jar; fruit knife; fruit loft; fruit show; fruit stall; fruit tree; etc.

Fruit bat (Zo["o]l.), one of the Frugivora; -- called also fruit-eating bat.

Fruit bud (Bot.), a bud that produces fruit; -- in most oplants the same as the power bud.

Fruit dot (Bot.), a collection of fruit cases, as in ferns. See Sorus.

Fruit fly (Zo["o]l.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Drosophila, which lives in fruit, in the larval state.

Fruit jar, a jar for holding preserved fruit, usually made of glass or earthenware.

Fruit pigeon (Zo["o]l.), one of numerous species of pigeons of the family Carpophagid[ae], inhabiting India, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They feed largely upon fruit. and are noted for their beautiful colors.

Fruit sugar (Chem.), a kind of sugar occurring, naturally formed, in many ripe fruits, and in honey; levulose. The name is also, though rarely, applied to invert sugar, or to the natural mixture or dextrose and levulose resembling it, and found in fruits and honey.

Fruit tree (Hort.), a tree cultivated for its edible fruit.

Fruit worm (Zo["o]l.), one of numerous species of insect larv[ae]: which live in the interior of fruit. They are mostly small species of Lepidoptera and Diptera.

Small fruits (Hort.), currants, raspberries, strawberries, etc.

Fruit

Fruit\, v. i. To bear fruit. --Chesterfield.

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Language Translation for : fruit

Spanish: fruta,

German: die Frucht,

Japanese: 果実

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fruit

In botany, the part of a seed-bearing plant that contains the fertilized seeds capable of generating a new plant (see fertilization). Fruit develops from the female part of the plant. Apples, peaches, tomatoes, and many other familiar foods are fruits.

fruit

c.1175, from O.Fr. fruit, from L. fructus "fruit, produce, profit," from frug-, stem of frui "to use, enjoy" (cognate with O.E. brucan "to enjoy," see brook (v.)). Older sense preserved in fruits of one's labor. Originally in Eng. meaning vegetables as well. Modern narrower sense is from c.1225. Meaning "odd person, eccentric" is from 1910; that of "male homosexual" is from 1935. Fruitcake is from 1854 in the literal sense; slang meaning "lunatic" is first attested 1952. Fruitless "ineffectual" is from 1340.

Main Entry: fruit
Function: noun
1 a : something (as evidence) that is obtained or gathered during an action or operation (as a search) fruit of an illegal arrest —National Law Journal> b plural : FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE fruits doctrine —Oregon v. Elstad, 470 U.S. 298 (1985)>
2 a in the civil Law of Louisiana : property (as income or goods) produced by or derived from other movable or immovable property without diminution of its substance fruits and products of the thing held —Louisiana Civil Code> —compare PRODUCT 3

civil fruit
: the revenue derived from property esp. by virtue of an obligation (as a lease)

nat·u·ral fruit
: an animal or plant product (as a crop) b : income that is produced or earned by other property or services

Main Entry: fruit
Pronunciation: 'früt
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant;especially : one having a sweet pulp associated with the seed fruit of the tree>
2 : a product of fertilization in a plant with its modifiedenvelopes or appendages; specifically : the ripened ovary of a seed plant and its contents

fruit (fr

t) Pronunciation Key
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant that contains the seeds, sometimes fused with other parts of the plant. Fruits can be dry or fleshy. Berries, nuts, grains, pods, and drupes are fruits. ◇ Fruits that consist of ripened ovaries alone, such as the tomato and pea pod, are called true fruits. ◇ Fruits that consist of ripened ovaries and other parts such as the receptacle or bracts, as in the apple, are called accessory fruits or false fruits. See also aggregate fruit , multiple fruit , simple fruit., See Note at berry.

Our Living Language : To most of us, a fruit is a plant part that is eaten as a dessert or snack because it is sweet, but to a botanist a fruit is a mature ovary of a plant, and as such it may or may not taste sweet. All species of flowering plants produce fruits that contain seeds. A peach, for example, contains a pit that can grow into a new peach tree, while the seeds known as peas can grow into another pea vine. To a botanist, apples, peaches, peppers, tomatoes, pea pods, cucumbers, and winged maple seeds are all fruits. A vegetable is simply part of a plant that is grown primarily for food. Thus, the leaf of spinach, the root of a carrot, the flower of broccoli, and the stalk of celery are all vegetables. In everyday, nonscientific speech we make the distinction between sweet plant parts (fruits) and nonsweet plant parts (vegetables). This is why we speak of peppers and cucumbers and squash—all fruits in the eyes of a botanist—as vegetables.

Fruit

a word as used in Scripture denoting produce in general, whether vegetable or animal. The Hebrews divided the fruits of the land into three classes:, (1.) The fruit of the field, "corn-fruit" (Heb. dagan); all kinds of grain and pulse. (2.) The fruit of the vine, "vintage-fruit" (Heb. tirosh); grapes, whether moist or dried. (3.) "Orchard-fruits" (Heb. yitshar), as dates, figs, citrons, etc. Injunctions concerning offerings and tithes were expressed by these Hebrew terms alone (Num. 18:12; Deut. 14:23). This word "fruit" is also used of children or offspring (Gen. 30:2; Deut. 7:13; Luke 1:42; Ps. 21:10; 132:11); also of the progeny of beasts (Deut. 28:51; Isa. 14:29). It is used metaphorically in a variety of forms (Ps. 104:13; Prov. 1:31; 11:30; 31:16; Isa. 3:10; 10:12; Matt. 3:8; 21:41; 26:29; Heb. 13:15; Rom. 7:4, 5; 15:28). The fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23; Eph. 5:9; James 3:17, 18) are those gracious dispositions and habits which the Spirit produces in those in whom he dwells and works.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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fruit

see bear fruit; forbidden fruit.

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