fruit
/fɹut/ verb C2- To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
He/she/it fruits · Past fruited · Past participle fruited · -ing form fruiting
Verb forms
- Base form
- fruit
- He/she/it
- fruits
- Past
- fruited
- Past participle
- fruited
- -ing form
- fruiting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.
A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers.
It bears no fruit, and is not of the least service to man.” The Plane-Tree, interrupting him, said, “You ungrateful fellows!
They talked of his sister, his friends, his house, his fruit, of everything but himself; yet Elizabeth was longing to know what Mrs.
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