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Definition of Fruit

Fruit Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural. The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it. The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. To bear fruit. Related Definitions: Above, Action, Advantageous, Algae, And, Any, Are, As, Bear, Berries, Body, Branches, By, Certain, Commonly, Consequence, Consolidated, Contained, Contents, Corn, Cotton, Desirable, Disadvantageous, Edible, Effect, Enjoyment, Especially, Evil, Flax, Flowering, Flowerless, For, Fruit, Grass, Ground, Grown, Growth, In, Intemperance, Is, It, Labor, Man, Nourishment, Of, Offspring, On, Or, Ovary, Plant, Plural, Produce, Produced, Product, Pulpy, Result, Ripened, See, Seed, Self-Denial, Spore, That, The, Them, Those, To, Used, Vegetable, Whatever, Which, With, Womb, Young

Fruit Quotations Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Walter Pater The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle The entire fruit is already present in the seed. Tertullian Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. James E. Jones

Fruit Translations fruit in Afrikaans is vrug fruit in Danish is frugt fruit in Dutch is vrucht fruit in French is fruitier, fruit fruit in German is Obst, Obst/Frucht, Frucht fruit in Italian is frutti, frutto, frutta fruit in Latin is fructus fructus, pomum fruit in Norwegian is frukt fruit in Portuguese is fruta fruit in Spanish is fruta fruit in Swedish is frukt

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