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fruit

noun (see Usage notes for discussion of plural)

(botany) 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 , one would not usually use it to make jam.

(context, nutrition) Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles 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, Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.

(figurative) A positive end result or reward of labour/labor or effort.

''His long nights in the office eventually bore , when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

(figurative) A child of a marriage.

The of the union.

(context, offensive slang) A homosexual or effeminate man.

Translations:

Dutch: m_{(nl, spruit)}f
French: pédé , (effeminate) folle
German: Tunte^{(de, Schwuler, m}}, f^{(de, Schwuchtel)}, t-, de)}f
Italian: finocchio^{(it, frocio, m, {{t+, it)}m
Spanish: marica^{(es, maricón, m}}, {{t+, es)}m

verb

To produce fruit.

Etymology: (1125"75) Middle English fruit, fruits and vegetables, from Old French fruit, from fructus, enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income, a derivative of frui, to have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy, from Proto-Indo-European base

bhrug-

, to make use of, to have enjoyment of; cognate with Modern German brauchen, to use.

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