FRUIT
What does "FRUIT" mean?
The sweet, seed-bearing part of a plant that is eaten as food.
Meanings
- The edible, usually sweet and fleshy seed-bearing structure of a plant. She packed an apple and some grapes, her favourite fruit, for the hike.
- In botany, the matured ovary of a flowering plant, including things like tomatoes, nuts, and grains. Botanically a tomato is a fruit, even though cooks treat it as a vegetable. technical
- The result or reward of work or effort. The promotion was the fruit of ten years of quiet persistence. figurative
- To produce or bear fruit. The young pear tree finally fruited in its fourth summer.
Did you know?
- By the botanical definition, a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not - a true berry develops from a single flower with one ovary, which the strawberry fails on.
Word origin
From Latin 'fructus' (enjoyment, produce, fruit), from 'frui' (to enjoy), via Old French 'fruit' into Middle English.
Remember it
FRUIT hides 'I' near the end - one 'I' for the one seed at the core. Think 'FR-U-I-T': Fresh Ripe Under-the-tree.
A little poem
Heavy on the branch-
all summer the tree was just
this, becoming sweet.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the tomato turn red at the dinner party? It overheard the chefs arguing about whether it was a fruit.
What it teaches
Patience is just slow ripening: nothing worth eating sweetens overnight.
Quick facts
What does FRUIT mean?
The sweet, seed-bearing part of a plant that is eaten as food.
Is FRUIT a valid word?
Yes — FRUIT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FRUIT?
FRUIT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FRUIT come from?
From Latin 'fructus' (enjoyment, produce, fruit), from 'frui' (to enjoy), via Old French 'fruit' into Middle English.
What can FRUIT teach us?
Patience is just slow ripening: nothing worth eating sweetens overnight.
How players do
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