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English noun: fruit | |||
| 1. | fruit (plant) the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | reproductive structure | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accessory fruit, achene, acorn, aggregate fruit, berry, blue fig, buckthorn berry, buffalo nut, capitulum, chokecherry, cubeb, drupe, ear, edible fruit, elk nut, false fruit, fruitlet, gourd, hagberry, hip, juniper berry, marasca, May apple, multiple fruit, oil nut, olive, pod, pome, prairie gourd, pseudocarp, pyxidium, pyxis, quandong, rose hip, rosehip, rowanberry, schizocarp, seed, seedpod, spike, stone fruit, syncarp, wild cherry, yellow berry | ||
| 2. | fruit (artifact) an amount of a product | ||
| Synonyms | yield | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | product, production | ||
| 3. | fruit (event) the consequence of some effort or action | ||
| Samples | He lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aftermath, consequence | ||
English verb: fruit | |||
| 1. | fruit (creation) cause to bear fruit | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Cause | fruit | ||
| 2. | fruit (creation) bear fruit | ||
| Samples | The trees fruited early this year. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bear, turn out | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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