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fruit

809 1.0
An edible part of a plant like an apple or orange
  • noun
  • /frut/
: fruta
  • For dessert, we enjoyed a bowl of mixed fruit including strawberries, bananas, and blueberries.
  • fruits and vegetables
  • fresh fruit
  • eat fruit

They have to give them fruit and a juice.

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Examples

  • Come on, we've got fruit smoothies!

  • Muslim peasants came into town daily to sell their fruit and left in the evening.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I only have kind of yellow fruit and some honey.

  • Hello gentlemen, fresh fruit for you.

  • These are the fruits of the garden just now.

    ZOE
  • Many schools served dried fruit on the few occasions when fresh produce was not available.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We've got nice clusters of fruit all up and down these plants.

  • Also, I'm having the fruit with this steel cut oats.

  • "The older the vines, the sweeter the fruit."

  • Hedges are important as habitat for wildlife, sources of timber, fruit, and ingredients for food products.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

edible fruit
vsfruit
1 1.0

A fruit you can safely eat that is usually sweet

focuses on the biological ripened seed-bearing body rather than safety for eating

Idioms

fruit of the loins
  • Literature
1 8.9

The children and grandchildren of a person

Compounds

21 2.6

A small flying insect whose young eat and spoil ripe or rotten fruit

17 1.0

A drink you get by squeezing fresh fruit

16 1.0

A mix of different fresh fruits served as a dessert

15 1.0

A tree that grows fruit you can eat

13 3.4

Easy tasks that give quick results

forbidden fruit
  • Informal
10 5.3

A thing that looks very tempting but is not allowed and is risky

10 1.0

Fruit with most of its water removed to make it last longer

A small tropical fruit with a hard skin and sweet, slightly sour pulp used in drinks and desserts

7 1.8

A sweet drink made from mixed fruit juices often served at parties

6 3.7

A large flying animal that lives in warm places and eats mostly fruit at night

5 1.3

A juicy fruit with thick skin like an orange or lemon

A mix of small pieces of different fruits often packed in sweet syrup

3 1.5

A sweet drink made from fruit juice mixed with water and often added sugar

Fruit grown without chemical pesticides or artificial fertilizers

2 3.4

A soft juicy fruit with one hard seed inside, like a peach or cherry

2 1.8

A pastry with cream or custard topped with fresh fruit

1 1.6

An oval brown fruit with fuzzy skin, green inside, and a slightly sour taste, often eaten raw or in desserts

1 1.2

A baked sweet snack with chopped fruit cut into bars

1 2.5

A person or business that grows fruit to sell

Cooked fruit in sugar makes a sweet dessert often with spices

1 3.8

A yellow tropical fruit that makes a star shape when cut

1 4.0

A phone game where you swipe the screen to cut flying fruit while avoiding bombs

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated in sugar for a sweet treat

A rule that stops courts from using evidence found illegally

fruit sugar
  • Specialized
1 2.7

A natural sugar found in ripe fruit and honey

A small black and white fly whose young eat the inside of fruit

1 1.0

A fruit you can safely eat that is usually sweet

1 7.7

A large sweet citrus fruit that is a mix of tangerine and grapefruit with thick, wrinkled skin

false fruit
  • Specialized
1 7.6

A fruit like an apple or pear whose edible part comes from other flower parts

1 9.9

A joking, slightly rude way to call someone's children

1 6.8

A coin machine with fruit pictures that you play to try to win money

A child born to a couple

A sweet, thick dessert of milk and eggs mixed with pieces of fruit

1 2.5

An animal that eats mostly fruit

A long tropical fruit with soft sweet inside that people eat or make into juice

pawpaw fruit
  • Australian
1 3.2

A tropical fruit with sweet orange flesh eaten fresh

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar

simple fruit
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A fruit that grows from one part of a flower with seeds inside, like a grape

accessory fruit
  • Specialized
1 8.4

A fruit whose flesh comes from flower parts, like an apple or strawberry

aggregate fruit
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A fruit made of many small fruits that form from one flower, like blackberries

jambu fruit
  • Indian
1 9.2

A sweet tropical fruit with crisp, juicy inside and a pink bell shape

1 9.9

A round tropical fruit the size of an orange with thick skin and juicy inside

A cold drink made by crushing fruit and often sweetened

key fruit
  • Specialized
9.3

A winged fruit from maple or ash trees with one seed that spins as it falls

A cold mix of small pieces of different fruits served as dessert

A small brown fruit from a tree eaten after it becomes soft

multiple fruit
  • Specialized
7.3

A food that forms when many flowers grow together, like a pineapple or mulberry

9.5

A bat that eats fruit and has tube-shaped nostrils that point away from each other

A large soft fruit like a peach or plum that is very juicy

How Ripe

overripe
6 3.0
ripe
65 1.0
fruit
809 1.0
unripened
1 4.2

Surface Forms

fruit singular
fruits plural

Etymology

Fruit comes from the Latin fructus, which meant 'produce' or 'enjoyment'. Think of a plant's fruit as its 'product' or tasty reward to eat, and the same root appears in the English word fruitful.