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  1. In botany: The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
    While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.
  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.
    Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
  3. A positive end result or reward of labour or effort.
    His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit, when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
  4. Offspring from a sexual union.
    The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
  5. slang, offensive A homosexual or effeminate man.

Usage notes

  • In the botanical and figurative senses, fruit is a singular noun and also used as a collective noun.
    a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit.
  • Fruits is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense.
    berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits; the fruits of this plant split into two parts.
  • When fruit is used as a collective noun in the botanical sense, a piece of fruit is often used as the corresponding singular form.
  • In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits.

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