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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fruit /frut/USA pronunciation n., pl. fruits, (esp. when thought of as a group) fruit, v. n. - Botanythe part of a plant that is developed from a flower, esp. when used as food: [uncountable]Fruit provides vitamins.[countable]Apples and oranges are fruits.
- a product, result, or effect;
return or profit:[countable]the fruits of one's labors.
Idioms- Botany bear fruit, to produce a result or profit:The effort bore fruit.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fruit (fro̅o̅t),USA pronunciation n., pl. fruits, (esp. collectively) fruit, v. n. - Botanyany product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- Botanythe developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.
- Botanythe edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.
- Botany, Fungithe spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.
- anything produced or accruing;
product, result, or effect;
return or profit:the fruits of one's labors. - Slang Terms(disparaging and offensive). a male homosexual.
v.i., v.t. - Botanyto bear or cause to bear fruit:a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.
- Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, equivalent. to frūg-, variant stem of fruī to enjoy the produce of + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action
- Old French
- Middle English 1125–75
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fruit /fruːt/ n - the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing one or more seeds. It may be dry, as in the poppy, or fleshy, as in the peach
- any fleshy part of a plant, other than the above structure, that supports the seeds and is edible, such as the strawberry
- any plant product useful to man, including grain, vegetables, etc
- (often plural) the result or consequence of an action or effort
- slang chiefly US Canadian a male homosexual
- archaic offspring of man or animals; progeny
vb - to bear or cause to bear fruit
Etymology: 12th Century: from Old French, from Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, from frūī to enjoyˈfruitˌlike adj |