fruit

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  1. noun The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
  2. noun An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
  3. noun A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.

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vegetable ·  flower ·  seed ·  meat ·  wine ·  food ·  fish ·  egg ·  corn ·  juice ·  berry ·  root

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fruit:   fruits
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frūctus, enjoyment, fruit, from past participle of fruī, to enjoy.

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  1. from Middle English fruit, frute, frut, sometimes froit, froyt, fryt. from Old French fruit, French fruit = Provencal frut, frug = Spanish Portuguese fruto = Italian frutto = Old Saxon fruht = OFries. frucht = Dutch vrucht (and fruit, from F.) = Middle Low German vrucht = Old High German fruht, Middle High German vruht, German frucht = Icelandic fruktr = Swedish frukt = Danish frugt, from Latin fructus (fructu-), an enjoying, enjoyment, usually in concrete sense, proceeds, product, produce, fruit, income, etc., from frui (orig.*frugvi) (cf. frux (frug-), fruit), past participle fructus (fructu-), also fruitus, enjoy, use, = Anglo-Saxon brū can, use, English brook, endure: see brook. Hence also, from Latin frui, English fructify, fructuous, frugal, frument, frumenty, etc.
  2. from fruit, n.
 

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