name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
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noun
Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
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noun
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
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noun
Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
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Usage: attributive, countable, uncountable
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noun
A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
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Usage: colloquial, countable, dated, derogatory, uncountable
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Synonyms: batty boy, batty man, botter, bumboy, bum chum, bumder, bummer, butt rider, chi chi man, confirmed bachelor, cock gobbler, dicklicker, dung puncher, finocchio, finook, friend of Dorothy, funny boy, gay, gayboy, gaylord, gaymo, gaywad, homo, homosexual, invert, light stepper, mary, omi-palone, punk, sausage jockey, sausage rider, shirt lifter, queer, Uranian, uranist
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noun
An effeminate man.
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Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: bading, big girl's blouse, cockney, cot-quean, cupcake, dudelet, fakaleiti, fairy, femboy, gentleman, ginch, girl's blouse, girlyman, janegirl, jessie, nancy, nancyboy, nancy pants, pansy, Percy, poof, poofter, posy sniffer, pretty boy, puss-gentleman, quiche-eater, sissy, softling, soy boy, swish, twink, zenana
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noun
Offspring from a sexual union.
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
A crazy person.
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Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
an amount of a product
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Synonyms: yield
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Broader terms: product, production
noun
the consequence of some effort or action
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Broader terms: consequence, aftermath
noun
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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Broader terms: reproductive structure
Narrower terms: edible fruit, juniper berry, May apple, achene, gourd, prairie gourd, quandong, blue fig, acorn, olive, hip, rose hip, rosehip, wild cherry, marasca, hagberry, chokecherry, rowanberry, buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut, ear, spike, capitulum, fruitlet, seed, berry, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp, drupe, stone fruit, pome, false fruit, pod, seedpod, pyxidium, pyxis, accessory fruit, pseudocarp, buckthorn berry, yellow berry, cubeb, schizocarp
verb
bear fruit
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Broader terms: bear, turn out
verb
cause to bear fruit
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History
* As a German surname, Americanized from Fruth, and also Frucht. * As a French and West Flemish surname, from the noun fruit. Sometimes also shortened from the personal name Godefrait, a French form of Godfrey.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhruHg- Proto-Italic *frūgjōr Latin fruor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin frūctus Old French fruitbor. Middle English fruyt English fruit From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fruitus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), frūctus and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Partially displaced native Old English wæstm, ofett and æppel (whence modern ovest and apple). Compare Dutch vrucht, German Frucht, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish frukt, Danish frugt. In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).
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