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Noun fruit has 3 senses
- fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
--1 is a kind of reproductive structure
--1 has particulars: | | edible fruit; juniper berry; May apple; achene; gourd; prairie gourd; quandong, blue fig; acorn; olive; hip, rose hip, rosehip; wild cherry; marasca; hagberry; chokecherry; rowanberry; buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut; ear, spike, capitulum; fruitlet; seed; berry; aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp; drupe, stone fruit; pome, false fruit; pod, seedpod; pyxidium, pyxis; accessory fruit, pseudocarp; buckthorn berry, yellow berry; cubeb; schizocarp |
- fruit - the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
--2 is a kind of consequence, aftermath
- yield, fruit - an amount of a product
--3 is a kind of product, production
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