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Definitions for 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] Slang : Extremely Disparaging and Offensive . a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
[7] to bear or cause to bear fruit: a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.
[8] botany 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
[9] any fleshy part of a plant, other than the above structure, that supports the seeds and is edible, such as the strawberry
[10] the specialized spore-producing structure of plants that do not bear seeds
[11] any plant product useful to man, including grain, vegetables, etc
[12] (often plural) the result or consequence of an action or effort
[13] British old-fashioned , slang chap; fellow: used as a term of address
[14] slang , mainly British a person considered to be eccentric or insane
[15] slang , mainly US and Canadian a male homosexual
[16] archaic offspring of man or animals; progeny
[17] to bear or cause to bear fruit

Words related to Fruit

product, nut, crop, produce, grain, berry, harvest, yield, pome, drupe, reward, return, advantage, profit, pay, effect, benefit, result, consequence, outcome

Words nearby Fruit

frug, frugal, frugality, frugivore, frugivorous, fruit, fruit bat, fruit beer, fruit body, fruit cocktail, fruit cup

Origin of Fruit

1125–75; Middle English < Old French < Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, equivalent to frūg-, variant stem of fruī to enjoy the produce of + -tus suffix of v. action

Other words from Fruit

fruit·like , adjective

Word origin for Fruit

C12: from Old French, from Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, from frūī to enjoy

Synonyms for Fruit

berry, crop, grain, nut, produce, product, drupe, harvest, pome, yield