FRUITS
/fɹuːts/
9
Scrabble
10
WWF
F(4) R(1) U(1) I(1) T(1) S(1)
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Definition
/fɹuːts/
noun
- (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
- Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), 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 the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
- A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
- An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.“His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.”
- Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.“the fresh-squeezed fruit juice; a fruit salad; an artificial fruit flavor; a fruit tree; a fruit bat”
verb
- To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
Source: Wiktionary
