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fruit

/fɹut/ noun A1
  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)

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But they fell to fighting on the road, and it was too much trouble to go back with what was left of the fruit.
The Jungle Book, p. 50 · B2
“It’s a big tree,” said Marilla, “and it blooms great, but the fruit don’t amount to much never--small and wormy.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 39 · C1
And we had fruit cake and pound cake and doughnuts and two kinds of preserves, Marilla.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 142 · C1
You know I never use it except for the hired man’s porridge or black fruit cake.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 191 · C1

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