English > fruit: 5 senses > noun 1, plantMeaning | The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant. |
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Narrower | May apple | edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant |
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accessory fruit, pseudocarp | fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary |
achene | small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall |
acorn | fruit of the oak tree |
aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle |
berry | A small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) |
buckthorn berry, yellow berry | fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments |
buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut | oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood |
chokecherry | The fruit of the chokecherry tree |
cubeb | spicy fruit of the cubeb vine |
drupe, stone fruit | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed |
ear, spike, capitulum | fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn |
edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
fruitlet | A diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit |
gourd | Any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds |
hagberry | small cherry much liked by birds |
hip, rose hip, rosehip | The fruit of a rose plant |
juniper berry | berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper |
marasca | small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made |
olive | small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree |
pod, seedpod | A several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant |
pome, false fruit | A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part |
prairie gourd | small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant |
pyxidium, pyxis | fruit of such plants as the plantain |
quandong, blue fig | The fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree |
rowanberry | decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree |
schizocarp | A dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed |
seed | A small hard fruit |
wild cherry | The fruit of the wild cherry tree |
Broader | reproductive structure | The parts of a plant involved in its reproduction |
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Spanish | fruta, fruto |
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Catalan | fruita, fruit |
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Adjectives | fruity | tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit |
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Nouns | fruiterer | a person who sells fruit |
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fruitlet | a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit |
Verbs | fructify | bear fruit |
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fructify | become productive or fruitful |
fruit | bear fruit |
fruit | cause to bear fruit |