Word Finder - fruit

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(often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.

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Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

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A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:

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An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

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His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

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Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

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the fresh-squeezed fruit juice; a fruit salad; an artificial fruit flavor; a fruit tree; a fruit bat

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A homosexual man; an effeminate man.

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Offspring from a sexual union.

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Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

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To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

A great variety of industries is carried on, the chief being the manufacture of semolina and other farinaceous foods, confectionery, preserved fruit and jams, chemicals and rubber goods.

Jackson picked up an apple from the bowl of fruit, tossed it in the air, caught it, then bit into it.

Beetroot for sugar, grain and fruit are also grown.

Destiny was in her high chair playing with fruit colored cereal.

It is exceedingly picturesque, the villages clinging to the sides of the mountain glens from which water is drawn for irrigation; and excellent fruit is grown.

How is my little fruit bat doing?

It started with Crocus and Jonquils and then the fruit trees as the weather grew warmer.

Where do you get fruit and vegetables from?

Presently they came to a low plant which had broad, spreading leaves, in the center of which grew a single fruit about as large as a peach.

Like the fruit of a garden I will give thee offspring."

While Bird Song fed its guests only breakfast, there was always fresh fruit available and the management triumvirate ate heartily of nature's stores.

Trade is in cider, cattle, butter, flowers and fruit, and there are salmon and other fisheries.

She stopped to admire the colors of a fruit pyramid and the textures of textiles.

She shopped responsibly, but this time she picked up healthy fresh fruit and vegetables – something she previously would have had to replace with canned food.

The principal fruit trees are the duri-an, mangosteen, custard-apple, pomegranate,.

If we come across another of the strange fruit we must avoid it.

They like juicy fruit to eat as well as people, and they are hungry.

These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel.

The displays of fruit and vegetables, homemade food, crafts, and other items soon enthralled her.

The scales showed seven pounds less, he was eating baskets of fruit and goody-goody health food, plus he'd laid off the booze completely.

The district is by no means devoid of fertility, the steep slopes facing the south enjoying so fine a climate as to render them very favorable for the growth of fruit trees, especially the olive, which is cultivated in terraces to a considerable height up the face of the mountains, while the openings of the valleys are generally occupied by towns or villages, some of which have become favorite winter resorts.

Another favourite haunt of mine was the orchard, where the fruit ripened early in July.

Sueca has a thriving trade in grain and fruit from the Jucar valley, which is irrigated by waterways created by the Moors.

The conqueror visits a cannibal kingdom and finds many marvels in the palace of Porus, among them a vine with golden branches, emerald leaves and fruit of other precious stones.

Nut constituting the fruit.

Oh, the delight with which I gathered up the fruit in my pinafore, pressed my face against the smooth cheeks of the apples, still warm from the sun, and skipped back to the house!

How well I remember the graceful draperies that enfolded me, the bright autumn leaves that wreathed my head, and the fruit and grain at my feet and in my hands, and beneath all the piety of the masque the oppressive sense of coming ill that made my heart heavy.

I hope she will not eat too many of the delicious fruit for they will make her very ill.

It frequently happens that the perfume of a flower or the flavour of a fruit recalls to her mind some happy event in home life, or a delightful birthday party.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

She drank the cool fruit punch, grateful as it chilled her parched throat.

I cared enough to make sure Darkyn's little fruit bat is okay.

With his silver pride and joy secured to the bike rack, a spare change of clothes and rain gear in his pannier and some fruit and crackers for a snack, he rolled away from town to the peace and quiet of the countryside.

Gramuntia, also furnishes a fruit which, after acquiring sweetness by keeping, is eaten by the Spaniards.

This hierarchical tie was soon snapped, but the Hellenizing influence continued to work, and bore its most abundant fruit in the 5th century.

Aitchison, however, gathered in the Hazardarakht ravine in Afghanistan a form with different-shaped fruit from that of the almond; being larger and flatter.

Xenophon makes no mention of the peach, though the Ten Thousand must have traversed the country where, according to some, the peach is native; but Theophrastus, a hundred years later, does speak of it as a Persian fruit, and De Candolle suggests that it might have been introduced into Greece by Alexander.

The fruit of the peach is produced on the ripened shoots of the preceding year.

The pruning for fruit consists in shortening back the laterals which had been nailed in at the disbudding, or summer pruning, their length depending on their individual vigour and the luxuriance of the tree.

In well-developed shoots the buds are generally double, or rather triple, a wood bud growing between two fruit buds; the shoot must be cut back to one of these, or else to a wood bud alone, so that a young shoot may be produced to draw up the sap beyond the fruit, this being generally desirable to secure its proper swelling.

In the subdivision of the order into tribes use is made of differences in the form of the fruit and the manner of folding of the embryo.

When the fruit is several times longer than broad it is known as a siliqua, as in stock or wallflower; when about as long as broad, a silicula, as in shepherd's purse.

The fruit also is of excellent quality and in great variety, although the culture of the vine is limited to some of the warmer valleys in the southern districts.

Agricultural products, fruit and wool from the surrounding country are shipped in considerable quantities.

It has also been held that the word Africa comes from friqi, farikia (the country of fruit).

Those indigenous to the country are the delicious chirimoyas, paltas or alligator pears, the paccay, a species of Inga, the lucma, and the granadilla or fruit of the passion-flower.

Grapes are produced in many of the irrigated valleys of the coast, such as Chincha, Lunahuana, Ica, Vitor, Majes, Andaray, Moquegua and Locumba, and the fruit is manufactured into wines and brandies.

The fruit is commonly used for the manufacture of oil, which is consumed in the country, and only a small part is exported.

Probably it was not the fruit of a single effort of its author.

Good wine, fruit and olive oil are the most important natural products of the country round Trieste.