EGAVE

fruit

About 25.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
  2. noun The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
  3. noun The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
  4. noun Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit even if it does not develop from a floral ovary. A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
  5. noun A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
  6. noun An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
    His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
  7. noun Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; producing or consuming fruit.
    fresh-squeezed fruit juice
  8. noun A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.

Similar words

yield vegetable blossom outgrowth orchard apple berry pear pineapple grapefruit

Often followed by

of and trees is in or juice to juices

Word family

fruited fruiting fruits

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