fruit

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  A monkey holding some partially eaten fruit
• WordNet 3.6
  • v fruit bear fruit "the trees fruited early this year"
  • v fruit cause to bear fruit
  • n fruit an amount of a product
  • n fruit the consequence of some effort or action "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
  • n fruit the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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"HE TOOK A CONTENTED SURVEY OF HIS FRUIT TREES."

Fruits common to most of the States

Hummingbirds and Fruit

fruit and bowl

Fruits

CARPINUS BETULUS, LEAF, CATKINS, AND FRUIT

FRUIT OF CAMELLILA JAPONICA

UNHAPPY RESULT OF A TOO GENEROUS FRUIT DIET

• Interesting fact: Mangos are known throughout the world as the "King of Fruits."
• • Fruit That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. "The fruit of rashness.""What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.""They shall eat the fruit of their doings.""The fruits of this education became visible."
  • Fruit The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. "King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown."
  • Fruit (Hort) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
  • Fruit (Bot) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
  • Fruit (Bot) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
  • v. i Fruit To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify ."
  • Fruit Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural. "Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof."
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• Interesting fact: Grapes are grown around the world more than any other fruit
• • n fruit In a general sense, any product of vegetable growth useful to men or animals, as grapes, figs, corn, cotton, flax, and all cultivated plants.
  • n fruit In a more limited sense, the reproductive product of a tree or other plant; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds, as wheat, rye, oats, apples, pears, nuts, etc.
  • n fruit In a still more limited sense, an edible succulent product of a plant, normally covering and including the seeds, as the apple, orange, lemon, peach, pear, plum, a berry, a melon, etc.; in a collective sense, such products in the aggregate.
  • n fruit In botany, the matured ovary of a plant, consisting of the seeds and their pericarp, and including whatever may be incorporated with it; also, the spores of cryptogams and the organs accessory to them. The kinds of fruit are very numerous, and differ greatly in character and degree of complexity. They have also received many names, but they may for the most part be grouped under the following classes: simple fruits, which consist of a single matured pistil; aggregate fruits, composed of a cluster of carpels belonging to the same flower, and crowded together upon the common receptacle; multiple or collective fruits, formed by the aggregation of the pistils of several flowers into one mass; and accessory or anthocarpous fruits, in which the true pericarp (belonging essentially to one of the preceding groups) is incorporated with or inclosed by an enlargement of some adjacent organ or organs, which becomes the most conspicuous portion of the fruit.
  • n fruit The produce of animals; offspring; young: as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
  • n fruit A product in general; anything produced by or resulting from effort of any kind, or by or from any cause; outcome, effect, result, or consequence: as, the fruits of victory; the fruit of folly.
  • fruit To produce fruit; come into bearing.
  • fruit To bring into fruit under cultivation.
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• Interesting fact: As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper the banana the sweeter it will taste.
• • n Fruit frōōt the produce of the earth, which supplies the wants of men and animals: the part of a plant which contains the seed: the offspring of animals: product, consequence, effect, advantage
  • v.i Fruit to produce fruit
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• Roman Polanski

  

  “If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.”
• Herodotus

  

  “All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
• James Allen

  

  “Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.”
• Henry Miller

  

  “Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
• Lord Alfred Tennyson

  

  “Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.”
• Moliere

  

  “Love is often the fruit of marriage.”

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