Fruit
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation [fɹʉwʔ] · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fruit is a noun meaning (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:.
Meaning
(botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:.
More Meanings
- 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.
- 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.
- (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
- (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
Example Sentences
the fruit of rashness
fresh-squeezed fruit juice
They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
The fruits of this education became visible.
Word Forms
- fruits
- fruiting
- fruited
Synonyms for fruit
Depending on context, synonyms include botter, bumder, bummer, dicklicker, finocchio, finook.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include yield, blossom, outgrowth, orchard, apple, berry.
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