fruit
- noun
- /frut/
- 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.
- They have to give them fruit and a juice.
- It kind of looks like a cobbler without the fruit, which I love.
- This tomato is more fruit than it is vegetable.
- No, that's yogurt, fruit, milk and ice cream.
- and telling them don't eat fruit, only eat vegetables.
- These are the fruits of the garden just now.
- He could eat the fruit on the vines.
Examples
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Come on, we've got fruit smoothies!
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Muslim peasants came into town daily to sell their fruit and left in the evening.
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I only have kind of yellow fruit and some honey.
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Hello gentlemen, fresh fruit for you.
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These are the fruits of the garden just now.
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Many schools served dried fruit on the few occasions when fresh produce was not available.
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We've got nice clusters of fruit all up and down these plants.
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Also, I'm having the fruit with this steel cut oats.
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"The older the vines, the sweeter the fruit."
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Hedges are important as habitat for wildlife, sources of timber, fruit, and ingredients for food products.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A fruit you can safely eat that is usually sweet
Idioms
Compounds
A small tropical fruit with a hard skin and sweet, slightly sour pulp used in drinks and desserts
- Jargon
A rule that stops courts from using evidence found illegally
An oval brown fruit with fuzzy skin, green inside, and a slightly sour taste, often eaten raw or in desserts
- US
A large sweet citrus fruit that is a mix of tangerine and grapefruit with thick, wrinkled skin
- Specialized
A fruit whose flesh comes from flower parts, like an apple or strawberry
- Specialized
A fruit made of many small fruits that form from one flower, like blackberries
A long tropical fruit with soft sweet inside that people eat or make into juice
- Specialized
A fruit like an apple or pear whose edible part comes from other flower parts
- Specialized
A winged fruit from maple or ash trees with one seed that spins as it falls
- Specialized
A food that forms when many flowers grow together, like a pineapple or mulberry
- Australian
A bat that eats fruit and has tube-shaped nostrils that point away from each other
- Specialized
A fruit that grows from one part of a flower with seeds inside, like a grape
How Ripe
Surface Forms
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.