| 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" |
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