fruit tree
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- noun
- /fruːt triː/
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- Two gardeners planted shade trees and fruit trees, flowers and grass, and the green truck brought crates and furniture.
- grow fruit trees
- plant fruit trees
- flowering fruit trees
One thing we can do with trees, especially if they're fruit trees, is grafting.
- One thing we can do with trees, especially if they're fruit trees, is grafting.
- Clip off plant tissue on a fruit tree while it's fruiting in the summer.
- We have plans to put in some fruit trees, not a lot, just a few like select varieties.
- Like a black bear in a fruit tree, gulping up sour apples with dry sucking sounds.
- They walk on their knuckles through the forest looking for fruit trees and eating herbs when they can't find fruits.
Examples
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They had fruit trees that produced very well.
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We eat from the fruit trees and drink from the stream, and then we sleep.
Fiction book (2000) -
Otherwise it might spread to your fruit trees.
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Imagine fruit trees growing across the fields.
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There were a lot of fruit trees in her yard.
Fiction book (1997) -
The fruit trees are all in bloom.
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We do have a block of fruit trees next to the House of two apples and two pears.
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Pictures from the time show proud residents standing before trim homes with well-tended gardens and fruit trees.
Academic text (2008) -
Further on, handsome fruit trees rise in the midst of soft, green knolls.
Fiction book (1993) -
The orchard is full of fruit trees that provide a variety of delicious fruits each season.
Synonyms
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A tree that grows round fruit people eat
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A small round fruit or the tree that produces it
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A tree or shrub that makes small round fruit with one hard stone
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A tree that grows round sweet fruits called apples
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A tree or shrub that grows small round fruit with one hard stone
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A tree that grows edible round or oval fruit with one hard stone
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A tree that grows round sweet fruit you can eat
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A large tropical tree that grows sweet, juicy, oval fruit
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A tree that makes sweet, juicy fruit called pears
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A tree that grows sweet, juicy peaches
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A small sour apple or the tree that grows it often used to make jam
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A tropical tree that grows large green fruit called avocado
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A tree that grows plums you can eat
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A large fruit with rough green skin and sweet yellow flesh, or the tree that grows it
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A tree that grows sweet red fruit you can eat or the fruit it makes
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A tree that grows juicy fruits like oranges, lemons, or limes
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A tropical tree and its large green fruit with sweet creamy flesh
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A tropical tree that makes large starchy fruit that become like bread when cooked
A tree grown for its apples that people eat
A tree that grows sweet fruit like peaches but with smooth skin
A tree that makes fruit like both a plum and an apricot
A small Asian tree that makes small round fruit like a cherry or plum
A small evergreen tree that produces sweet orange fruit like mandarins
Small tree from South America that grows egg-shaped reddish fruit you can eat
A tropical tree from the Americas that grows sweet, soft fruit
How Fruitful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tree that produces edible fruit' is directly predictable from combining 'fruit' (edible seed-bearing body) with 'tree' (a tall perennial plant): the compound names a type of tree characterized by its fruit. This noun-noun composition is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun fruit tree paints a simple picture: a tree heavy with fruit you can eat, its branches full of apples or peaches. So it means 'a tree that produces edible fruit'.