Definition of Fruit

Fruit Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural. The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it. The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. To bear fruit. Related Definitions: Above, Action, Advantageous, Algae, And, Any, Are, As, Bear, Berries, Body, Branches, By, Certain, Commonly, Consequence, Consolidated, Contained, Contents, Corn, Cotton, Desirable, Disadvantageous, Edible, Effect, Enjoyment, Especially, Evil, Flax, Flowering, Flowerless, For, Fruit, Grass, Ground, Grown, Growth, In, Intemperance, Is, It, Labor, Man, Nourishment, Of, Offspring, On, Or, Ovary, Plant, Plural, Produce, Produced, Product, Pulpy, Result, Ripened, See, Seed, Self-Denial, Spore, That, The, Them, Those, To, Used, Vegetable, Whatever, Which, With, Womb, Young

Fruit Quotations Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. Will Rogers Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. Erma Bombeck

Fruit Translations fruit in Afrikaans is vrug fruit in Danish is frugt fruit in Dutch is vrucht fruit in French is fruitier, fruit fruit in German is Obst, Obst/Frucht, Frucht fruit in Italian is frutti, frutto, frutta fruit in Latin is fructus fructus, pomum fruit in Norwegian is frukt fruit in Portuguese is fruta fruit in Spanish is fruta fruit in Swedish is frukt