fruit

noun

The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

(botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:

Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.

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.

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

(attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

(derogatory, figurative) An effeminate man.

(informal) A crazy person.

The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

A surname.

(aviation) Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.

(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

verb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Roots

fructusfruit- · Latin · fruit, produce

Synonyms for fruit

plumcotn drupen melonn guavan nectarinen muskmelonn rambutann pineapplen citrangen bananan

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Where does fruit come from?

The word fruit breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root fruit-, from Latin fructus (“fruit, produce”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.