fruit (obsolete fruict) /froot/

1. The produce of the earth, which supplies the needs of humans and animals
2. An edible part of a plant, generally sweet, acid and juicy, esp a part that contains the seed, but sometimes extended to include other parts (eg the flower-stalk in a strawberry), and popularly distinguished from the vegetable, its savoury, firm-fleshed counterpart
3. A fructification, esp the structure that develops from the ovary and its contents after fertilization, sometimes including also structures formed from other parts of the flower or axis (botany)
4. The offspring of animals (archaic)
5. (often in pl) product, effect or advantage
6. A male homosexual (derog sl, esp US)

To produce fruit

fruitˈage noun (archaic)

1. Fruit collectively
2. Fruits

fruitāˈrian noun

A person who lives on fruit (also adjective)

fruitˈed adjective

1. Containing fruit
2. Having produced fruit

fruitˈer noun

1. A fruiterer (now dialect)
2. A tree, etc as a producer of fruit, as in good fruiter
3. A fruit-grower

fruitˈerer noun

A person who deals in fruit

fruitˈeress noun (rare)

A female fruiterer

fruitˈery noun

1. A place for storing fruit
2. Fruitage

fruitˈful adjective

Productive

fruitˈfully adverb

fruitˈfulness noun

fruitˈiness noun

fruitˈing noun

The process of bearing, or coming into, fruit

fruitˈless adjective

1. Barren, sterile
2. Without profit
3. Useless
4. In vain

fruitˈlessly adverb

fruitˈlessness noun

fruitˈlet noun

1. A small fruit
2. One of the small fruit-like parts that forms an aggregate or multiple fruit

fruitˈy adjective

1. Like, or tasting like, fruit
2. Rich
3. (of a voice) mellow or resonant
4. Salacious, saucy or smutty (informal)
5. Crazy (US inf)
6. Homosexual (informal, esp US)

fruit bat noun

Any bat of the suborder Megacheiroptera, large fruit-eating bats of the Old World

fruit body see fruiting body below.

fruitˈ-bud noun

A bud that produces fruit

fruit cage noun

An enclosure with mesh sides and a roof to protect growing fruit and vegetables from birds, etc

fruitˈcake noun

1. A cake containing dried fruit
2. A slightly mad person (informal)

fruit cocktail noun

A fruit salad, esp one of small, usu diced, pieces of fruit

fruit fly noun

A fly of the genus Drosophila that feeds on decaying fruit

fruiting body noun (botany)

A seed or spore-bearing structure, eg the large spore-bearing structures of many fungi (also fruit body)

fruitˈ-knife noun

A small knife with a blade of silver, etc for cutting fruit

fruit machine noun

A coin-operated gaming machine found in amusement arcades, pubs, etc in which chance must match with any of a variety of stated winning combinations the pictures, traditionally of different fruits, on a set of revolving wheels

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