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6 4.4
To make seeds and edible parts on a plant
  • verb
  • /frut/
translation icon : dar fruto
  • But this one will also stay smaller and produce fruit throughout the whole season.
  • fruiting trees

Some trees fruit once a year, some trees every two years, some trees you go, I don't know, few months.

Examples

  • We see our first fruiting Superplatano plants at Modesto Canabal's farm near Yauco in the southwestern region of the island.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Strawberries take less time to breed, since they grow and fruit more quickly than blackberries, while blueberries usually take a lot longer.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Trees are starting to fruit, some are blossoming

  • But, in their fourth year, only three of them are fruiting.

    Academic text (1994)
  • I also have a few peach, pear, cherry trees, and apple trees from which I can fruit each year.

    Blog text (4)
  • Figs are a lifeline in the forest, often fruiting when there is nothing else to eat.

  • The ecologist needs to be in Africa when the zebras are mating, the plant biologist in South America when the trees are fruiting, or the anthropologist in Sri Lanka long enough to win the confidence of the local population.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The apple tree will fruit abundantly if it receives enough sunlight.

  • During warm summers, many plants fruit earlier than usual.

  • Once the flowers bloom, the vine will fruit by late summer.

Synonyms

to set
vsto fruit
  • Specialized
14 4.9

To begin producing fruit or seeds after flowering

describes producing seeds in general, not only the starting stage
to fructify
vsto fruit
  • Specialized
1 9.9

To produce fruit on a tree or plant

is the simpler common verb for the same action
fruiting
vsto fruit
3.7

Able to produce apples or berries on a tree

means the plant actually produces seed-bearing bodies now

Idioms

fruit of the loins
  • Literature
8.9

The children and grandchildren of a person

Phrasal Verbs

to fruit up
  • Informal
7.5

To add fruit to food to make it taste or look better

Compounds

14 2.6

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

13 1.0

A mix of different fresh fruits served as a dessert

13 1.0

A tree that grows fruit you can eat

12 1.0

A drink you get by squeezing fresh fruit

8 3.4

Easy tasks that give quick results

7 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

5 3.7

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

forbidden fruit
  • Informal
4 5.3

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

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

4 1.8

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

3 1.3

A juicy fruit with thick skin like an orange or lemon

2 1.5

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

2 3.4

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

1 1.8

A pastry with cream or custard topped with fresh fruit

Fruit grown without chemical pesticides or artificial fertilizers

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 2.5

A person or business that grows fruit to sell

A rule that stops courts from using evidence found illegally

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

1 1.0

A fruit you can safely eat that is usually sweet

1 1.2

A baked sweet snack with chopped fruit cut into bars

1 1.6

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

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

1 7.7

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

9.9

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

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar

accessory fruit
  • Specialized
8.4

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

aggregate fruit
  • Specialized
7.3

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

false fruit
  • Specialized
7.6

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

6.8

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

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

A child born to a couple

fruit sugar
  • Specialized
2.7

A natural sugar found in ripe fruit and honey

A cold drink made by crushing fruit and often sweetened

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

An animal that eats mostly fruit

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

9.9

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

jambu fruit
  • Indian
9.2

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

pawpaw fruit
  • Australian
3.2

A tropical fruit with sweet orange flesh eaten fresh

9.5

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

simple fruit
  • Specialized
6.0

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

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

How Fruitful

yield
257 4.1
to fruit
6 4.4
to set
  • Specialized
14 4.9
to flower
40 1.0

Surface Forms

fruit infinitive
fruited past
fruited past participle
fruiting present participle
fruits third person singular

Etymology

The verb fruit comes from the root fructus meaning 'produce', and it simply means 'to make or bear fruit'. So when a tree or plant 'fruits' it is producing its natural product.