fruit

n//fɹut//

frukt, livsfrukt, avkomma, avkastning, behållning, nytta, produkt, resultat, bög, fikus, avkasta, ge frukt

  1. The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

  2. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

  3. 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.

  4. (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

  5. (informal) A crazy person.

  6. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:

  7. 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.

  8. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

  9. (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

  10. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

  11. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

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