fruit

Etymology
From, , from , from and  (compare 🇨🇬), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Displaced native.

Noun
(see Usage notes for discussion of plural)


 * 1)  A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
 * 2) The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
 * 3) The spores of  and their accessory organs.
 * 4) Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit  even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
 * 5) A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
 * 6) An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
 * 7)  Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics;  producing or consuming fruit.
 * 8)  A homosexual man;  an effeminate man.
 * 9)  Offspring from a sexual union.
 * 10)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics;  producing or consuming fruit.
 * 2)  A homosexual man;  an effeminate man.
 * 3)  Offspring from a sexual union.
 * 4)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  A homosexual man;  an effeminate man.
 * 2)  Offspring from a sexual union.
 * 3)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  A homosexual man;  an effeminate man.
 * 2)  Offspring from a sexual union.
 * 3)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  Offspring from a sexual union.
 * 2)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  A crazy person.
 * 1)  A crazy person.

Usage notes

 * In the botanical and figurative senses, is usually treated as uncountable:
 * a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit.
 * 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 is treated as uncountable in the botanical sense,  is often used as a singulative.
 * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is.
 * The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.

Hyponyms

 * See Thesaurus:fruit § Hyponyms

Translations

 * Swahili: ,

Verb

 * 1) To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَثْمَرَ
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܲܥܸܢ, ܐܵܟܹܪ
 * Classical Syriac: ܐܟܪ, ܛܥܢ, ܦܪܥ
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Kannada:
 * Latin: fructifico
 * Malayalam:
 * Quechua: ruruy
 * Spanish: dar fruta
 * Swedish: ge frukt,
 * Telugu:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) offspring
 * 2) result, consequence
 * 3) profit, benefit
 * 1) result, consequence
 * 2) profit, benefit
 * 1) profit, benefit

Etymology 1
From, , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  fruit

Derived terms
- fruit types

Etymology 2
From, older , from , past participle of.

Etymology
, a latinized spelling of, from , a derivative of , from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fruit

Noun

 * 1) fruit