fruit

1. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically (countable, uncountable)
2. The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. (countable, uncountable)
3. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs. (countable, uncountable)
4. Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary. (countable, uncountable)
5. 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. (countable, uncountable)
6. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result. (countable, uncountable) · His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.· He spent his retirement enjoying the fruits of his labour.
7. Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit. (countable, uncountable) · fresh-squeezed fruit juice· a fruit salad
8. A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one. (colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable)

Plural fruits