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fruits

Variant of fruit

noun pl. fruit or fruits

  1. any plant product, as grain, flax, vegetables, etc.: usually used in pl.
  2. the edible plant structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant, usually eaten raw: many fruits which are not sweet, as tomatoes, beans, green peppers, etc., are popularly called vegetables
  3. the quality of being fruity (sense ); fruitiness: said of wine
  4. the result, product, or consequence of any action: fruit of hard work
  5. Slang a male homosexual: term of contempt or derision
  6. Archaic the young of animals or man
  7. Bot. the mature ovary of a flowering plant, together with its contents, and any closely connected parts, as the whole peach, pea pod, cucumber, etc.

intransitive verb, transitive verb

to bear or cause to bear fruit

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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