fruit

fruit is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
3. transitive verb. The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
4. transitive verb. The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
5. transitive verb. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. intransitive verb. To bear fruit.
8. noun. an amount of a product

   Synonyms: yield

9. noun. the consequence of some effort or action

   "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"

10. noun. the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
11. verb. bear fruit

    "the trees fruited early this year"

12. verb. cause to bear fruit

Synonyms

yield

Common word forms

fruits, fruited, fruiter, fruitful, fruiting, fruitless

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