Dictionary entry details
• FRUIT (noun)
Meaning:
The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("fruit" is a kind of...):
reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fruit"):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
capitulum; ear; spike (fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn)
fruitlet (a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit)
seed (a small hard fruit)
berry (a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry))
aggregate fruit; multiple fruit; syncarp (fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple)
drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)
false fruit; pome (a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part)
pod; seedpod (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)
pyxidium; pyxis (fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released)
accessory fruit; pseudocarp (fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry)
buckthorn berry; yellow berry (fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments)
cubeb (spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes)
buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut (oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood)
rowanberry (decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree)
chokecherry (the fruit of the chokecherry tree)
juniper berry (berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper)
May apple (edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant)
achene (small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall)
gourd (any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds)
prairie gourd (small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant)
blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)
acorn (fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base)
olive (small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil)
hip; rose hip; rosehip (the fruit of a rose plant)
wild cherry (the fruit of the wild cherry tree)
marasca (small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made)
hagberry (small cherry much liked by birds)
schizocarp (a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed)
Meaning:
The consequence of some effort or action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies
Hypernyms ("fruit" is a kind of...):
aftermath; consequence (the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual)
Meaning:
An amount of a product
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
yield; fruit
Hypernyms ("fruit" is a kind of...):
product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)
• FRUIT (verb)
Meaning:
Cause to bear fruit
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Cause:
fruit (bear fruit)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Bear fruit
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
the trees fruited early this year
Hypernyms (to "fruit" is one way to...):
bear; turn out (bring forth,)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
