Fruit

Noun

 * 1)  The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
 * 2) Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
 * 3) A positive end result or reward of labour or effort.
 * 4) Offspring from a sexual union.
 * 5)  A homosexual or effeminate man.

Verb

 * 1) To produce fruit.

Adjectives for Fruit
forbidden; copious; unavailing; immediate; fairy; delicious; grateful; acid; just; divine; mellow; pulpy; ambrosia]; monthly; teeming; autumnal; fuller; beatific; whole-some; fragrant; delightful; deciduous; luscious; bitter; discordant; blessed; apparent; bleeding; sacred; proper; gushing; clustering; golden; compensating; disastrous; ruddy; detested; glorious; exotic; immortal; alluring; natural; noble; fresh; cordial; panting; wandering; fairest; legitimate; sun-ripened; vigorous; personal; pouting; celestial; cherished; ripe; fallacious; unknown; blushing; sole; mellow; seasonal; proper; wind-tossed; choicest; dazzling; tolerable; ornamental; sprouting; ripe-cheeked; remarkable; nectarine; over-sized; divinest; flesh-colored; rotten; wormy; ripe; sweet; delicious; refreshing; gorgeous; immaculate; juicy;

Verbs for Fruit
attack—; bear —; blight—; blossom into—; consume—; damage—; develop into—; diet on—; gather—; load with—; partake of—; produce—; reap—; relish—; replenish with —; savor—; serve—; spray—; store—; yield—; —abounds; —delights; —rots; — satiates;

Thesaurus
offspring, olive, opera, opus, opuscule, orange, origination, outcome, outgrowth, output, pansy, papaw, papaya, passion fruit, pathic, payment, peach, pear, persimmon, pineapple, pip, pippin, pit, plantain, plum, plumcot, pomegranate, posterity, precipitate, proceeds, produce, product, production, products, profits, progeny, prune, punk, queen, quince, raisin, rambutan, raspberry, recompense, red currant, result, resultant, results, returns, rising generation, sapphist, second crop, seed, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, sons, stone, stone fruit, strawberry, succession, sugar apple, sugarplum, sweetsop, tangelo, tangerine, treasures, tribade, ugli fruit, upshot, vintage, work, yield, younglings, youngsters, Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, acorn, advantages, aftermath, akee, alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, artifact, auntie, avocado, banana, bear, bear fruit, bearberry, bearing, benefits, berry, bi-guy, bilberry, bird seed, bisexual, blackberry, brainchild, breed, bring forth, brood, bull dyke, bumper crop, butch, by-product, cacao, candleberry, canistel, cantaloupe, capulin, casaba, catamite, checkerberry, cherimoya, cherry, chicken, child, children, citrange, citron, citrus, citrus fruit, civet fruit, coinage, compensation, composition, concoction, consequence, consequences, consequent, corollary, crab apple, cranberry, creation, creature, crop, crowning achievement, currant, custard apple, damson, date, derivation, derivative, descendants, descent, deserts, development, dewberry, distillate, distillation, drupe, dyke, effect, elderberry, emolument, end product, essence, event, eventuality, eventuation, extract, fag, faggot, fairy, family, feijoa, femme, fig, flaxseed, flit, fricatrice, fructify, fruit cocktail, fruit compote, fruit soup, fruits, furnish, gooseberry, grain, grandchildren, grape, grapefruit, great-grandchildren, guanabana, guava, gunsel, handiwork, harvest, hayseed, heirs, honeydew, hostages to fortune, huckleberry, icaco, ilama, imbu, income, inheritors, invention, invert, issue, jaboticaba, jackfruit, jujube, kernel, kids, kumquat, legacy, lemon, lesbian, lime, lineage, lingonberry, linseed, litchi, little ones, loganberry, logical outcome, loquat, make, mammee apple, mandarin orange, mango, mangosteen, manufacture, manzanilla, marang, masterpiece, masterwork, mayapple, medlar, melon, mintage, mulberry, muscadine, muscat, muscatel, muskmelon, nance, navel orange, nectarine, new generation, new mintage, nut, nutmeg melon, offshoot,

Etymology
(1125–75) fruit "fruits and vegetables" from  fruit from  fructus "enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income", a derivative of  frui "to have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy" from ; cognate with Modern  brauchen "to use",  brook "to tolerate". Displaced native ovet "fruit" (from  ofett "fruit"),  wastum, wastom "fruit, growth" (from  wæstm "growth, produce, increase, fruit"),  blede "fruit, flower, offspring" (from  blēd "fruit, flower").

Usage notes

 * In the botanical and figurative senses, undefined: is usually treated as uncountable:
 * a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit.
 * fruits: is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense:
 * berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits; the fruits of this plant split into two parts.
 * When undefined: is treated as uncountable in the botanical sense, undefined: is often used as a singulative.
 * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits:.

Derived terms

 * bear fruit
 * fruit cocktail
 * fruit of one's loins
 * fruit of the poisonous tree‎
 * fruit of the union
 * fruitage


 * fruitarian
 * fruitful
 * fruitless
 * fruit salad
 * fruit tree
 * grapefruit


 * passion fruit
 * Sharon fruit
 * star fruit, starfruit
 * stone fruit

Related terms

 * frugivore
 * frugivorous

Noun

 * Afrikaans: vrug, vrugte
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: فاكهة ( (fawākih) )
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azeri: meyvə
 * Bengali:, ফল
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: frouezh (collective noun) frouezhenn
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: fruit
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 水果, 果子
 * Min Nan: 水果 (chúi-kó); 果子 (kóe-chí or ké-chí)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: kutsetse
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: froita
 * Georgian: ხილი (xili), ნაყოფი (naq‘op‘i)
 * German:
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Gujarati: ફળ
 * Haitian Creole: ,
 * Hebrew: פרי (perí), פירות (peyrót) (collective)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: frukto
 * Ilocano: bunga
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: fructo
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 果実, 果物, フルーツ
 * Korean: 과일
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Kurdish:, ,


 * Lakota: waskuyeca
 * Latin: fructus, frux , fruges
 * Latvian: auglis
 * Lithuanian: vaisius
 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: പഴം (pazham), ഫലം (phalam)
 * Manx: mess
 * Marathi: फळ (phala)
 * Mongolian: үр
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: miiniwin, miiniwinan
 * Persian: میوه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: fruta (collective), fruto
 * Romagnolo: fròtta
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meas, toradh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: воће, воћкa , плод
 * Roman: voće, voćka , plod
 * Sicilian: fruttu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sumerian: [[Image:B105ellst.png|40px]]
 * Swahili:, matunda
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bunga
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: பலம் (palam)
 * Telugu: పండు (paMDu), ఫలము (phalamu)
 * Tetum: ai-fuan
 * Thai: ลูก, ผล, ผลไม้
 * Turkish:
 * Uab Meto:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: پھل
 * Vietnamese: quả, trái, trái cây
 * West Frisian: frucht
 * !Xóõ: ǀnàn
 * Yiddish: פֿרוכט (frukht), אויפּס (oyps)
 * Yiddish: פֿרוכט (frukht), אויפּס (oyps)


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Ewe: kutsetse
 * Finnish:
 * French: fruit
 * Galician: froita
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian: gyümölcs
 * Icelandic:


 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: phrútona, p’ə̀o’óne
 * Yiddish: פֿרוכט


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: fruit
 * Czech: plody
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: gyümölcs
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Kurdish: به‌رهه‌م
 * Latin:


 * Lithuanian: vaisius
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ഫലം (phalam)
 * Manx: mess
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: fruct
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, behållning, , , ,
 * Telugu: ఫలము (phalamu)
 * Thai: (dâai pŏn dee)


 * Arabic: ثمرة
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: fruit
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Spross, Sprössling


 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Lithuanian: vaisius
 * Macedonian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: avkomma,, livsfrukt


 * Arabic: (šaðði džinsíyyan)
 * Catalan: marieta, maricó
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: pédé, (effeminate) folle
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: гомик (gómik), гомики (gómiki)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: shoga / (noun 5/6)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: (gor),  (dtăew),  (gày)

Etymology
fructus:

Noun

 * Li fruiz de arbres - the fruits of the tree
 * Li fruiz de arbres - the fruits of the tree

Etymology
fructus:

Noun

 * 1) fruit

Etymology
From fruut:, froyt:, from  fruit:.

Noun

 * 1) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable)

Synonyms

 * vrucht, (arch.) ooft

Derived terms

 * fruitachtig
 * fruitmand

Etymology
From fructus:, a derivative of frui:, from.

Noun

 * 1) fruit (1, 2, 3, 4)

Etymology
fructus:

Noun

 * 1) * Oisiaus et veneison et fruit (Érec et Énide,, circa 1170)
 * bird, venison and fruits
 * bird, venison and fruits