Fruit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural fruits, (especially collectively) fruit.
  1. any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
  2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.
  3. the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.
  4. the spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.
  5. anything produced or accruing; product, result, or effect; return or profit: the fruits of one's labors.
  6. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay man.
verb (used with or without object)
  1. to bear or cause to bear fruit: a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.
noun
  1. the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing one or more seeds. It may be dry, as in the poppy, or fleshy, as in the peach
  2. any fleshy part of a plant, other than the above structure, that supports the seeds and is edible, such as the strawberry
  3. the specialized spore-producing structure of plants that do not bear seeds
  4. any plant product useful to man, including grain, vegetables, etc
  5. the result or consequence of an action or effort
  6. chap; fellow: used as a term of address
  7. a person considered to be eccentric or insane
  8. a male homosexual
  9. offspring of man or animals; progeny
verb
  1. to bear or cause to bear fruit
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