Definition of fruit

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Fruit (v. t.) 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..

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Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it..
Raspberry :: Raspberry (n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry..
Ingathering :: Ingathering (n.) The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest..
Bloom :: Bloom (n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow..
Fructification :: Fructification (n.) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation..
Hesperidin :: Hesperidin (n.) A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance..
Blank :: Blank (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day..
Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
Pomace :: Pomace (n.) The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding..
Hypanthium :: Hypanthium (n.) A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear..
Superior :: Superior (a.) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.
Marginicidal :: Marginicidal (a.) Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste..
Pemmican :: Pemmican (n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration..
Crane''s-bill :: Crane's-bill (n.) The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane..
Lanseh :: Lanseh (n.) The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste..
Hep :: Hep (n.) See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose..
Apricot :: Apricot (n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone..
Wilding :: Wilding (n.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant..
Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..
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