fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [fɹʉwʔ]
enpr: fro͞ot
ipa: /fɹuːt/
ipa: /fɹut/
ipa: /fɹʉt/
homophone: froot
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: fruits
Etymology: Etymology tree
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 frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Old English wæstm.
In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).
Senses: examples: text: [A]fter the flower is past commeth the fruit in long pods, every seede bunching out like the pods of Orobus and as bigge almost as the smaller Pease.
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum botanicum: the Theater of Plants; or, An Herball of a Large Extent, London, page 1063:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
text: He spent his retirement enjoying the fruits of his labour.
text: the fruit of rashness
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 3:10:
text: The fruits of this education became visible.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: It is incontestably the case that future generations enjoyed the extraordinary fruits of the Industrial Revolution’s “great enrichment”.
ref: 2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times:
glosses: An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
examples: text: fresh-squeezed fruit juice
text: a fruit salad
text: an artificial fruit flavor
text: a fruit tree
glosses: Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
examples: text: "Moishe just checked in," he said. "He's a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race."
ref: 1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 66:
text: I'm not talking to this twisted fruit anymore!
ref: 1984, This is Spinal Tap, spoken by Ian Faith (Tony Hendra):
text: Aww, but he's so cute! / He's a fruit… Oh my fucking god! You will not believe who was here today!
ref: 1997, Daniel Clowes, “Garage Sale”, in Ghost World, Jonathan Cape, published 2000, →ISBN, page 15:
synonyms: word: batty boy
word: batty man
word: botter
word: bum chum
word: bumder
word: bummer
word: butt rider
word: chi chi man
word: confirmed bachelor
word: cock gobbler
word: dicklicker
word: finocchio
word: finook
word: friend of Dorothy
word: funny boy
word: gay
word: gayboy
word: gaylord
word: gaymo
word: gaywad
word: homo
word: homosexual
word: invert
word: light stepper
word: mary
word: omi-palone
word: punk
word: sausage jockey
word: sausage rider
word: shirt lifter
word: queer
word: Uranian
word: uranist
word: bading
word: big girl's blouse
word: cockney
word: cot-quean
word: cupcake
word: dudelet
word: fakaleiti
word: fairy
word: femboy
word: gentleman
word: ginch
word: girl's blouse
word: girlyman
word: janegirl
word: jessie
word: nancy
word: nancyboy
word: nancy pants
word: pansy
word: Percy
word: poof
word: poofter
word: posy sniffer
word: pretty boy
word: puss-gentleman
word: quiche-eater
word: sissy
word: softling
word: soy boy
word: swish
word: twink
word: zenana
glosses: A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man.
examples: text: The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
text: fruit of one's loins
text: King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: And she spake out with a loud voyce, and saide, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:42:
glosses: Offspring from a sexual union.
glosses: A crazy person.
Synonyms: word: fruit
Hypernyms: word: food
word: produce
Hyponyms: word: fruit § Hyponyms
word: apple [⇒hyponyms]
word: apricot
word: avocado
word: banana
word: berry
word: blueberry
word: cherry
word: citrus
word: coconut
word: crabapple
word: date
word: drupe
word: grape [⇒hyponyms]
word: grapefruit
word: hand fruit
word: lemon
word: lime
word: mandarin
word: mango
word: melon [⇒hyponyms]
word: orange
word: peach
word: pear [⇒hyponyms]
word: pineapple
word: plum
word: pome
word: prune
word: quince
word: raspberry
word: stone fruit
word: strawberry
word: tomato
Coordinate terms: word: vegetable
Derived terms: sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: afterfruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: bear fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: befruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: crystallized fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: forefruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitage
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitarian
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit body
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit bowl
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitcake
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit cocktail
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruiten
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruiter
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruiterer
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitful
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitfully
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitfulness
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitgrowing
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit-growing
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruiting
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruition
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitless
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitly
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit salad
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit-set
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit shop
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruitsome
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit tea
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit tree
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit-tree
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit-trencher
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruit wine
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: fruity
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: glacé fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: grapefruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: in fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: jackfruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: key fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: milk fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: miraculous fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: monkey fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: old fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: passion fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: pickle fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: Sharon fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: star fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: starfruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: stone fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (literal, vegetal)
word: strange fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: forbidden fruit
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: fruit of one's loins
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: fruit of the poisonous tree
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: fruit of the union
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: unfruitful
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: unfruitfully
sense: Derived from fruit (figurative)
word: unfruitfulness
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word: accessory fruit
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word: aggregate fruit
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word: angry fruit salad
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word: atoll fruit dove
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word: bag of fruit
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word: beautiful fruit dove
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word: blue sausage fruit
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word: brandy fruit
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word: breadfruit
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word: butter fruit
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word: by their fruits you will know them
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word: cackle fruit
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word: candied fruit
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word: canefruit
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word: catapult fruit
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word: citrus fruit
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word: collective fruit
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word: compound fruit
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word: cream-fruit
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word: crotch fruit
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word: desert fruit cake
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word: doum fruit
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word: dried fruit
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word: drift fruit
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word: eggfruit
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word: egg fruit
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word: false fruit
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word: firstfruit
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word: fogfruit
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word: football fruit
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word: forbidden fruit is the sweetest
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word: frankenfruit
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word: fruital
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word: fruit and flowers
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word: fruit bat
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word: fruit-bearing
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word: fruitbody
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word: fruit borer
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word: fruit bouquet
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word: fruit brandy
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word: fruit cake
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word: fruit-cake
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word: fruitcrop
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word: fruitcrow
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word: fruit crush
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word: fruit cup
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word: fruit curd
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word: fruit dot
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word: fruit-dove
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word: fruit dove
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word: fruit drop
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word: fruit-eater
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word: fruiteater
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word: fruitery
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word: fruit fall
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word: fruitfest
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word: fruitflesh
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word: fruit fly
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word: fruitfly
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word: fruitgrower
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word: fruit hat
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word: fruit ice
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word: fruitie
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word: fruitification
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word: fruitify
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word: fruitini
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word: fruitious
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word: fruitique
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word: fruitivore
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word: fruit jar
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word: fruit juice
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word: fruit leather
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word: fruitlet
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word: fruitlike
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word: fruitling
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word: fruit loop
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word: fruit loops
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word: fruit machine
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word: fruitmonger
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word: fruit moon
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word: fruitness
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word: Fruit Ninja champion
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word: fruit of the sea
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word: fruit pigeon
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word: fruit punch
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word: fruit rollup
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word: fruit salt
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word: fruitseller
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word: fruitset
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word: fruitshop
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word: fruitsicle
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word: fruit smoothie
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word: fruit sugar
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word: fruit-time
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word: fruit up
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word: Fruitvale
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word: fruit vegetable
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word: fruit wall
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word: fruit wart
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word: fruit wine
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word: fruit-wood
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word: fruitwood
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word: fruitworm
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word: frutification
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word: golden fruit dove
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word: green fruit beetle
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word: hand fruit
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word: high-hanging fruit
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word: intrafruit
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word: Irish fruit
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word: jack fruit
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word: jack-fruit
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word: key-fruit
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word: kiwi fruit
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word: low hanging fruit
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word: low-hanging fruit
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word: Mediterranean fruit fly
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word: miracle fruit
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word: monkfruit
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word: monk fruit
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word: multifruit
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word: multiple fruit
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word: nipplefruit
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word: nonfruit
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word: nutty as a fruit cake
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word: Oriental fruit moth
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word: oyster fruit
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word: peach fruit moth
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word: pipfruit
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word: pseudofruit
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word: rose-crowned fruit-dove
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word: saguaro fruit
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word: simple fruit
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word: sling-fruit
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word: snake fruit
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word: soft fruit
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word: spore fruit
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word: superfruit
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word: top fruit
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word: tropical fruit
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word: ugli fruit
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word: uniq fruit
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word: Zabala fruit
Related terms: word: fructose
word: frugivore
word: frugivorous
word: :Category:Fruits