fruit

Meaning of fruit

noun
  1. the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.
    tropical fruits such as mangoes and papaya
    eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables
  2. a gay man.
verb
  1. (of a tree or other plant) produce fruit.
    the trees fruit very early

Middle English: from Old French, from Latin fructus ‘enjoyment of produce, harvest’, from frui ‘enjoy’, related to fruges ‘fruits of the earth’, plural (and most common form) of frux, frug- ‘fruit’.

Information about fruit

Hyphenation of fruit

fruit

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • fruit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

fruit synonyms

Meaning yield:

yield

Translation of fruit

Words that rhyme with fruit

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