Word for the day: fruit

fruit |fruːt|              *fruta (in Spanish)



DEFINITIONnoun
1 the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food: tropical fruits such as mangoes and papaya | [ mass noun ] : eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.• Botany the seed-bearing structure of a plant, e.g. an acorn.• archaic or literary natural produce that can be used for food: we give thanks for the fruits of the earth.• (the fruits or the fruit) the result or reward of work or activity: the pupils began to appreciate the fruits of their labours.• archaic offspring.2 N. Amer. informal, derogatory a male homosexual.

PHRASES
the fruit of the vine literary grapes.in fruit (of a tree or plant) at the stage of producing fruit.
ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, from Latin fructus ‘enjoyment of produce, harvest’, from frui ‘enjoy’, related to fruges ‘fruits of the earth’, plural (and most common form) of frux, frug- ‘fruit’.

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