Usually means: Mature ovary of a flower.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fruit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fruit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fruit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fruit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fruit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fruit, fruit: Wordnik
  7. fruit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fruit, Fruit: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Fruit, fruit: Wiktionary
  10. fruit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. fruit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. fruit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. fruit: Dictionary.com
  14. fruit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. fruit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Fruit (album), Fruit (band), Fruit (chess), Fruit (chess engine), Fruit (disambiguation), Fruit (slang), Fruit (software), Fruit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Fruit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. fruit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. fruit: Rhymezone
  20. fruit, fruit (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. fruit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. fruit: Free Dictionary
  23. fruit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fruit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fruit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. fruit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fruit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. fruit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fruit: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FRUIT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. fruit: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fruit: Easton Bible

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. fruit: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fruit, fruit, fruit, fruit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fruit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FRUIT (FRUITY), FRUIT: French-English Wine Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
▸ noun:  The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
▸ noun:  The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
▸ noun:  Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
▸ noun:  A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
▸ noun:  An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
▸ noun:  (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
▸ noun:  (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
▸ noun:  (informal) A crazy person.
▸ verb:  To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (aviation) Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.

Similar:
yield, Vegetables, berry, Grapes, veggie, juice, pineapple, cherries, peach, Strawberries, more...

Opposite:
vegetable, meat, mineral, dairy, grain

Types:
apple, banana, orange, strawberry, grape, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, cherry, pear, more...

Phrases:
fruit trees, fresh fruit, bear fruit, fruit juice, fruit juices, more...

Adjectives:
fresh, ripe, good, much, bread, bitter, red, green, bear, sweet, unripe

Colors:
    red,     green,     yellow,     orange,     purple, more...


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Similar:
yield, Vegetables, berry, Grapes, veggie, juice, pineapple, cherries, peach, Strawberries, more...

Opposite:
vegetable, meat, mineral, dairy, grain

Types:
apple, banana, orange, strawberry, grape, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, cherry, pear, more...

Phrases:
fruit trees, fresh fruit, bear fruit, fruit juice, fruit juices, in fruit, dried fruit, fruit fly, forbidden fruit, citrus fruit, bore fruit, fruit flies, fruit salad, fruit tree, bearing fruit, fruit set, more...

Adjectives:
fresh, ripe, good, much, bread, bitter, red, green, bear, sweet, unripe

Colors:
    red,     green,     yellow,     orange,     purple, more...



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