any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.

the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.

the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.

the spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.

anything produced or accruing; product, result, or effect; return or profit

the fruits of one's labors.

Slang

Disparaging and Offensive a male homosexual.

to bear or cause to bear fruit

a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.

noun

berry , crop , drupe , grain , harvest , nut , pome , produce , product , yieldnotes:fruit is the name given to those plants which have an ovary used for food; vegetable is the name given to a large category of herbaceous plants with parts used for food , advantage , benefit , consequence , effect , outcome , pay , profit , result , return , rewardnotes:fruit is the name given to those plants which have an ovary used for food; vegetable is the name given to a large category of herbaceous plants with parts used for food , fruitage , yield , aftermath , corollary , end product , event , issue , precipitate , ramification , resultant , sequel , sequence , sequent , upshot , banana , clingstone , fecundity , fig , freestone , fruitfulness , fruition , frutescence , gravidity , kiwi , lime , offspring , orange , pear , pears , plum , productiveness , prolificacy , tomato