| fruitful | | |
| adj. | 1. fruitful | productive or conducive to producing in abundance.; "be fruitful and multiply" |
| ~ fertile | capable of reproducing. |
| ~ bacciferous, berried, baccate | producing or bearing berries. |
| ~ blue-fruited | bearing blue fruit. |
| ~ bountiful, plentiful | producing in abundance.; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful year"; "fruitful soil" |
| ~ breeding | producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring.; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes" |
| ~ dark-fruited | bearing dark fruit. |
| ~ fertile, productive, rich, fat | marked by great fruitfulness.; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" |
| ~ procreative, reproductive, generative | producing new life or offspring.; "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs" |
| ~ high-yield | yielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production. |
| ~ oval-fruited | bearing oval fruit. |
| ~ prolific, fertile | bearing in abundance especially offspring.; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" |
| ~ red-fruited | bearing red fruit. |
| ~ round-fruited | bearing round fruit. |
| ~ small-fruited | bearing small fruit. |
| ~ productive | producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly).; "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration" |
| betel nut | | |
| n. (food) | 1. areca nut, betel nut | seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia. |
| ~ edible seed | many are used as seasoning. |
| ~ areca catechu, betel palm | southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk). |
| fruit | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. fruit | the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant. |
| ~ edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh. |
| ~ juniper berry | berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper. |
| ~ reproductive structure | the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction. |
| ~ may apple | edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant. |
| ~ achene | small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall. |
| ~ gourd | any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds. |
| ~ prairie gourd | small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant. |
| ~ blue fig, quandong | the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree. |
| ~ acorn | fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base. |
| ~ olive | small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil. |
| ~ rose hip, rosehip, hip | the fruit of a rose plant. |
| ~ wild cherry | the fruit of the wild cherry tree. |
| ~ marasca | small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made. |
| ~ hagberry | small cherry much liked by birds. |
| ~ chokecherry | the fruit of the chokecherry tree. |
| ~ rowanberry | decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree. |
| ~ buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut | oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood. |
| ~ capitulum, spike, ear | fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn. |
| ~ fruitlet | a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit. |
| ~ seed | a small hard fruit. |
| ~ berry | a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry). |
| ~ aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple. |
| ~ drupe, stone fruit | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube. |
| ~ false fruit, pome | a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part. |
| ~ seedpod, pod | a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant. |
| ~ pyxidium, pyxis | fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released. |
| ~ accessory fruit, pseudocarp | fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry. |
| ~ buckthorn berry, yellow berry | fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments. |
| ~ cubeb | spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes. |
| ~ schizocarp | a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. fruit, yield | an amount of a product. |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| n. (event) | 3. fruit | the consequence of some effort or action.; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" |
| ~ aftermath, consequence | the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual. |
| v. (creation) | 4. fruit | cause to bear fruit. |
| ~ fruit | bear fruit.; "the trees fruited early this year" |
| v. (creation) | 5. fruit | bear fruit.; "the trees fruited early this year" |
| ~ bear, turn out | bring forth,.; "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" |
| nut | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. nut | usually large hard-shelled seed. |
| ~ edible nut | a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. |
| ~ cedar nut, cembra nut | the seed of the Swiss pine. |
| ~ cola nut, kola nut | bitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract. |
| ~ mast | nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground. |
| ~ palm kernel, palm nut | seed of any oil palm. |
| ~ seed | a small hard fruit. |
| ~ nutlet | a small nut. |
| n. (person) | 2. nut | Egyptian goddess of the sky. |
| ~ egyptian deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. nut | a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt. |
| ~ block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides).; "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" |
| ~ hex nut | a nut with a hexagonal shape. |
| ~ locknut, safety nut | supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening. |
| ~ nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt. |
| ~ square nut | nut with a square shape. |
| ~ packing nut, stuffing nut | a nut used to tighten a stuffing box. |
| ~ butterfly nut, thumbnut, wing screw, wing-nut, wing nut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. en, nut | half the width of an em. |
| ~ linear measure, linear unit | a unit of measurement of length. |
| ~ pica em, em, pica | a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing. |
| n. (person) | 5. crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball | a whimsically eccentric person. |
| ~ eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, flake, geek | a person with an unusual or odd personality. |
| n. (person) | 6. addict, freak, junkie, junky, nut | someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction.; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" |
| ~ enthusiast, partizan, partisan | an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity. |
| ~ gym rat | someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa. |
| n. (body) | 7. ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis | one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens.; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" |
| ~ arteria testicularis, internal spermatic artery, testicular artery | a branch of the aorta supplying the testicles. |
| ~ testicular vein, vena testicularis | a vein from the testicles. |
| ~ male reproductive system | the reproductive system of males. |
| ~ family jewels, male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals | external male sex organs. |
| ~ seminiferous tubule | any of the numerous long convoluted tubules in the testis which are the sites where spermatozoa mature. |
| ~ gonad, sex gland | a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced. |
| ~ cobblers | a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball). |
| ~ male reproductive gland | the reproductive organs of a man. |
| ~ undescended testicle, undescended testis | a testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops.; "undescended testicles have an increased risk for cancer" |
| ~ epididymis | a convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens. |
| ~ rete testis | network of tubules carrying sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia. |
| ~ ductus deferens, vas deferens | a duct that carries spermatozoa from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct. |
| ~ spermatic cord | a structure resembling a cord that suspends the testis within the scrotum and contains the vas deferens and other vessels and nerves. |
| v. (contact) | 8. nut | gather nuts. |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| product | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. merchandise, product, ware | commodities offered for sale.; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products" |
| ~ cargo, consignment, freight, lading, shipment, payload, load, loading | goods carried by a large vehicle. |
| ~ commodity, trade good, good | articles of commerce. |
| ~ contraband | goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law. |
| ~ feature | an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles. |
| ~ generic | any product that can be sold without a brand name. |
| ~ ironmongery | the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop. |
| ~ irregular, second | merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name. |
| ~ business line, line of business, line of merchandise, line of products, product line, line | a particular kind of product or merchandise.; "a nice line of shoes" |
| ~ mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet | a place of business for retailing goods. |
| ~ number | an item of merchandise offered for sale.; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number" |
| ~ refill | a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents.; "he got a refill for his ball-point pen"; "he got a refill for his notebook" |
| ~ release | merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film).; "a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra" |
| ~ dreck, schlock, shlock | merchandise that is shoddy or inferior. |
| ~ software product, software package | merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale. |
| ~ inventory, stock | the merchandise that a shop has on hand.; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" |
| ~ top of the line | the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise. |
| ~ piece goods, yard goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| ~ book, volume | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together.; "he used a large book as a doorstop" |
| ~ book | a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge.; "he bought a book of stamps" |
| ~ spin-off, by-product, byproduct | a product made during the manufacture of something else. |
| ~ creation | an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone. |
| ~ deliverable | something that can be provided as the product of development.; "under this contract the deliverables include both software and hardware" |
| ~ end product, output | final product; the things produced. |
| ~ brainchild, inspiration | a product of your creative thinking and work.; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality" |
| ~ job | an object worked on; a result produced by working.; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" |
| ~ magazine | product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object.; "tripped over a pile of magazines" |
| ~ newspaper, paper | the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher.; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper" |
| ~ outturn, turnout, output | what is produced in a given time period. |
| ~ turnery | products made on a lathe. |
| ~ piece of work, work | a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing.; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time" |
| ~ fruit, yield | an amount of a product. |
| ~ film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show, flick, picture | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. mathematical product, product | a quantity obtained by multiplication.; "the product of 2 and 3 is 6" |
| ~ quantity | the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable. |
| ~ factorial | the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer.; "1, 2, 6, 24, and 120 are factorials" |
| ~ multiple | the product of a quantity by an integer.; "36 is a multiple of 9" |
| n. (substance) | 4. product | a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.; "a product of lime and nitric acid" |
| ~ hydrolysate | a product of hydrolysis. |
| ~ chemical, chemical substance | material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules. |
| ~ filtrate | the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 5. product | a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.; "skill is the product of hours of practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue" |
| ~ consequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" |
| n. (group) | 6. cartesian product, intersection, product | the set of elements common to two or more sets.; "the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things" |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| yield | | |
| n. (act) | 1. output, yield | production of a certain amount. |
| ~ production | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale.; "he introduced more efficient methods of production" |
| ~ crop, harvest | the yield from plants in a single growing season. |
| n. (possession) | 2. issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.; "the average return was about 5%" |
| ~ income | the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time. |
| ~ economic rent, rent | the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions. |
| ~ payback | financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment). |
| n. (quantity) | 3. output, production, yield | the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time).; "production was up in the second quarter" |
| ~ indefinite quantity | an estimated quantity. |
| ~ picking, pick | the quantity of a crop that is harvested.; "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years" |
| v. (possession) | 4. afford, give, yield | be the cause or source of.; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" |
| ~ open up, open | make available.; "This opens up new possibilities" |
| ~ give | cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense.; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| ~ allow for, allow, provide, leave | make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" |
| v. (change) | 5. give way, yield | end resistance, as under pressure or force.; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (creation) | 6. generate, give, render, return, yield | give or supply.; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" |
| ~ produce, create, make | create or manufacture a man-made product.; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
| ~ yield, give | cause to happen or be responsible for.; "His two singles gave the team the victory" |
| ~ establish, give | bring about.; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" |
| v. (possession) | 7. cede, concede, grant, yield | give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another. |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| v. (stative) | 8. relent, soften, yield | give in, as to influence or pressure. |
| ~ truckle | yield to out of weakness. |
| v. (motion) | 9. ease up, give, give way, move over, yield | move in order to make room for someone for something.; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" |
| ~ abandon, give up | stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (creation) | 10. give, yield | cause to happen or be responsible for.; "His two singles gave the team the victory" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ generate, yield, render, give, return | give or supply.; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" |
| v. (communication) | 11. concede, grant, yield | be willing to concede.; "I grant you this much" |
| ~ agree, concur, concord, hold | be in accord; be in agreement.; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" |
| ~ forgive | stop blaming or grant forgiveness.; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday" |
| v. (stative) | 12. succumb, yield | be fatally overwhelmed. |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, pass | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| v. (possession) | 13. bear, pay, yield | bring in.; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" |
| ~ investment funds, investment | money that is invested with an expectation of profit. |
| ~ earn, realise, bring in, pull in, realize, gain, make, take in, clear | earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages.; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" |
| ~ net, clear | yield as a net profit.; "This sale netted me $1 million" |
| ~ pay off | yield a profit or result.; "His efforts finally paid off" |
| v. (contact) | 14. give, yield | be flexible under stress of physical force.; "This material doesn't give" |
| ~ stretch | become longer by being stretched and pulled.; "The fabric stretches" |
| v. (competition) | 15. yield | cease opposition; stop fighting. |
| ~ surrender, give up | give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another.; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered" |
| ~ fall | be captured.; "The cities fell to the enemy" |
| v. (communication) | 16. buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb, yield | consent reluctantly. |
| ~ consent, go for, accept | give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to.; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" |
| ~ accede, give in, bow, defer, submit | yield to another's wish or opinion.; "The government bowed to the military pressure" |
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