WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
fruit•ed  (fro̅o̅tid),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Botanyhaving or bearing fruit.
  2. with fruit added.
  • fruit + -ed3 1605–15

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
fruit /frut/USA pronunciation   n., pl. fruits, (esp. when thought of as a group) fruit, v. 
n. 
  1. Botanythe part of a plant that is developed from a flower, esp. when used as food: [uncountable]Fruit provides vitamins.[countable]Apples and oranges are fruits.
  2. a product, result, or effect;
    return or profit:[countable]the fruits of one's labors.
Idioms
  1. Botany bear fruit, to produce a result or profit:The effort bore fruit.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
fruit  (fro̅o̅t),USA pronunciation n., pl. fruits, (esp. collectively) fruit, v. 
n. 
  1. Botanyany product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
  2. Botanythe developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.
  3. Botanythe edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.
  4. Botany, Fungithe spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.
  5. anything produced or accruing;
    product, result, or effect;
    return or profit:the fruits of one's labors.
  6. Slang Terms(disparaging and offensive). a male homosexual.

v.i., v.t. 
  1. Botanyto bear or cause to bear fruit:a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.
  • Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, equivalent. to frūg-, variant stem of fruī to enjoy the produce of + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action
  • Old French
  • Middle English 1125–75
fruitlike′, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
fruit / fruːt/
  1. the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing one or more seeds. It may be dry, as in the poppy, or fleshy, as in the peach
  2. any fleshy part of a plant, other than the above structure, that supports the seeds and is edible, such as the strawberry
  3. any plant product useful to humans, including grain, vegetables, etc
  4. (often plural) the result or consequence of an action or effort
  5. a homosexual man
  6. offspring of humans or animals; progeny
  1. to bear or cause to bear fruit
Etymology: 12th Century: from Old French, from Latin frūctus enjoyment, profit, fruit, from frūī to enjoyˈfruitˌlike
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