fruit

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Origin

  • From Middle English frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut, from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus and frūx (compare Latin fruor), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- ("to make use of, to have enjoyment of"). Cognate with English brook and German brauchen. Displaced native .
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  • Other fruits (not depicted above)
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