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Noun (3 meanings)
1. the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant.
fruit is a type of:
- reproductive structure (noun) - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction
types of fruit:
- May apple (noun) - edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant
- accessory fruit, pseudocarp (noun) - fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary
- achene (noun) - small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
- acorn (noun) - fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
- aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp (noun) - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry
- berry (noun) - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
- buckthorn berry, yellow berry (noun) - fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
- buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut (noun) - oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
- chokecherry (noun) - the fruit of the chokecherry tree
- cubeb (noun) - spicy fruit of the cubeb vine
- drupe, stone fruit (noun) - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond
- ear, spike, capitulum (noun) - fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- edible fruit (noun) - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
- fruitlet (noun) - a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit
- gourd (noun) - any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
- hagberry (noun) - small cherry much liked by birds
- hip, rose hip, rosehip (noun) - the fruit of a rose plant
- juniper berry (noun) - berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
- marasca (noun) - small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made
- olive (noun) - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree
- pod, seedpod (noun) - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- pome, false fruit (noun) - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
- prairie gourd (noun) - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
- pyxidium, pyxis (noun) - fruit of such plants as the plantain
- quandong, blue fig (noun) - the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
- rowanberry (noun) - decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree
- schizocarp (noun) - a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed
- seed (noun) - a small hard fruit
- wild cherry (noun) - the fruit of the wild cherry tree
fruit is derivationally related to:
3. the consequence of some effort or action.
Example:
- “he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies”
fruit is a type of:
- consequence, aftermath (noun) - the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
Verb (2 meanings)
1. cause to bear fruit.
to fruit
2. bear fruit.
to fruit
Example:
- “the trees fruited early this year”