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fruit
  1. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
  2. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
  3. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
  4. (modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Every tree has roots, and the tree itself must have produced some kind of fruit according to its kind.”
      “For only in America can the little man realize the fruit of his resources.”
      “The fruit of this exercise is high spiritual wisdom, which is suddenly and without constraint belched forth by the spirit inwardly, within itself.”
fruitification
  1. Alternative form of fructification
    1. The act of forming or producing fruit.
    2. The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
    3. The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
  2. Alternative form of fruition
  3. The addition of fruit (to something)
  4. Examples:
    1. “The owners of Sloppy Joe's in Havana, too, may bear some responsibility for the fruitification of the drink.”
      “Pollen is the essential feature or element in all fruitification of blossoms, essential to fruitbearing.”
      “We must also keep in mind that Gandhi did not live long enough to see through the fruitification of his vision.”
fructification
  1. (botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
  2. (botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Lamouroux described the fructification as capsules joined to form rather large blackish spots scattered over both surfaces of the frond.”
      “Culminating on Saturday, the exhibition has all that goes into fructification of the dream of a middle-class family.”
      “Plasmodiocarps are the most primitive type of fructification, while sporangia are the most advanced.”
fruition
  1. The fulfillment of something worked for. See also bring to fruition and come to fruition
  2. The enjoyment derived from a possession.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Thanks to all who put so much work into bringing the venture to fruition.”
      “We have three at present but the plan, whether it comes to fruition or not, is for four.”
      “It was their just reward last week to see the fruits of their labour come to fruition and be recognised.”
fruiter
  1. Any organism that fruits.
  2. (historical) A ship for transporting fruit.
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is a great prolific fruiter that yields average to large fruits with the larger ones appearing in the later flushes.”
      “A large mandarin tree in the centre of the garden is a prolific fruiter but the fruit is quite sour.”
      “Take for example the Soter 2001 Beacon Hill Brut Rosé from Oregon: mixing Pinot Noir with traditional Chardonnay gives this wine a distinct pink hue and a fuller, fruiter taste.”
fruiting
  1. fruiting body
  2. The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification.
fruitage
  1. Fruit, collectively.
  2. Product or result of any action, effect, good, or ill.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Jesus of Nazareth said that we should judge actions by fruitage, in other words, by practical effects.”
      “In so doing, our lives will be nourished by the Holy Spirit and we will thereby produce much fruitage.”
      “Salvation is all of grace and not of works, but its fruitage is obedience to the Commandments.”
fruitsicle
  1. A frozen dessert made from, or sweetened with, fruit or fruit juice
fruitfulness
  1. The state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Christmas tree is included in the exhibition as a symbol of fruitfulness and abundance in the house.”
      “The fruitfulness of this knowledge, contends Sankara, is apparent in the transformed life of one who appreciates the true nature of the Self.”
      “For all its complexity, the revisionist programme is best understood as affirming the fruitfulness of critical reflection.”
fruiteress
  1. (archaic) A woman who sells fruit; a female fruiterer.
fruitique
fruition
  1. The condition of bearing fruit.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Thanks to all who put so much work into bringing the venture to fruition.”
      “We have three at present but the plan, whether it comes to fruition or not, is for four.”
      “It was their just reward last week to see the fruits of their labour come to fruition and be recognised.”
fructure
  1. (obsolete) use; fruition; enjoyment
fruitlet
  1. A young, unripe fruit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I picked a fruitlet from the tree, knowing it would ripen into a delicious fruit in a few days.”
      “Do not worry about fruitlet size so much as applying the thinning spray when weather conditions are good, as discussed above.”
      “If the first fruitlet is taken from the north side of a tree, choose the next fruitlet from the east, then south and so on.”
fruitset
  1. (biology) A set of fruits from the same organism.
fruitiness
  1. the quality of being fruity.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Beginners sometimes describe dry wines as sweet because they confuse fruitiness with sweetness.”
      “Except for the crus, most Beaujolais should be drunk within two to three years of the vintage to retain the wine's fruitiness and brightness.”
      “I was pleasantly surprised with this wine, which had a slight effervescence and an intense fruitiness.”
fructescence
  1. (botany) The maturing or ripening of fruit.
fructifier
  1. Someone or something that fructifies.
  2. Examples:
    1. “As a fructifier of patriotism the importance of this ceremony cannot be easily overestimated.”
fruitery
  1. (historical) A place where fruit is stored.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She will however, still be perched behind a glass of lurid colour, only this time it will be decorated with umbrella, sparkler and assorted fruitery.”
      “Paul Davis runs the Dolau Hirion Fruitery Nursery near Llandeilo.”
fruitlessness
  1. The quality of being fruitless
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She smirked at the intriguing fruitlessness of it all and recalled what a lumberingly absurd dream life had been.”
      “The tree's fruitlessness is masked by leaves.”
      “For further proof of the fruitlessness of the efforts in either penalty box there was the final frantic exchanges in County's box.”
fruitshop
  1. (chiefly dated) A shop that sells fruit.
fructuation
  1. (archaic) produce; fruit
fruitness
  1. The quality of being fruit.
fruitling
  1. A small or immature fruit.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear.”
fruiterer
  1. One who sells fruit.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fruiterer walked off with his money, and the guards gave the butter merchant fifty blows of a courbash on the soles of his feet.”
      “During 1901-02, a shop was built on what became Part Three of Lot 245, which was leased to fruiterer Albert Blencoe.”
      “To the fruiterer I said his doom was nigh, and to the baker and candlestick maker that his hour had come.”
fruitmonger
  1. One who sells fruit.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fruitmonger displayed a variety of fresh and juicy fruits at the farmers market.”
fruitseller
  1. One who sells fruit.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The scooter swerved into a fruit stall and came to a standstill under a heap of bananas, while the scooterist found himself in the arms of an indignant fruitseller.”
      “They include a bus driver, a fruitseller and a gym instructor.”
      “The death of Khaled Said has been compared to that of Mohammed Bouazizi, the fruitseller whose self-immolation sparked the Tunisian revolution that began the chain of Arab Spring protests.”
fructifications
  1. plural of fructification
fruitifications
  1. plural of fruitification
fructescences
  1. plural of fructescence
fruitfulnesses
fruitsellers
fruitmongers
fructifiers
  1. plural of fructifier
fruitsicles
  1. plural of fruitsicle
fruiteresses
  1. plural of fruiteress
fruitiques
  1. plural of fruitique
fruitshops
  1. plural of fruitshop
fruiterers
fruitlings
fruitages
fruitings
  1. plural of fruiting
fruitions
fruitlets
  1. plural of fruitlet
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sawflies infest fruitlets and cause these to drop prematurely after which the pests pupate in the topsoil.”
      “Apple scab over-winters on fallen leaves, codling moth caterpillars live in fallen apples and pear midge grubs live in fallen fruitlets.”
      “Recently, apple fruitlets were also shown to be a rich source, and the kinins have been extracted from this tissue and concentrated.”
fruitsets
  1. plural of fruitset
fruiteries
  1. plural of fruitery
fruiters
  1. plural of fruiter
fruits
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