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fruit
  • (noun)
    1. The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
      While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.
    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.
      Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
    3. A positive end result or reward of labour or effort.
      ''His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit, when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
    4. Offspring from a sexual union.
      The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
    5. A homosexual or effeminate man.
  • (verb)
    1. To produce fruit.