1.  fruit(n = noun.plant) - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant;
is a kind of reproductive structure
has particulars: edible fruit, juniper berry, may apple, achene, gourd, prairie gourd, blue fig, quandong, acorn, olive, hip, rose hip, rosehip, wild cherry, marasca, hagberry, chokecherry, rowanberry, buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut, capitulum, ear, spike, fruitlet, seed, berry, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp, drupe, stone fruit, false fruit, pome, pod, seedpod, pyxidium, pyxis, accessory fruit, pseudocarp, buckthorn berry, yellow berry, cubeb, schizocarp
Derived forms verb fructify₃, verb fructify₁, verb fruit₂, verb fruit₁, noun fruiterer₁, noun fruitlet₁, adjective fruity₁

2.  fruit(n = noun.artifact) yield - an amount of a product;
is a kind of product, production

3.  fruit(n = noun.event) - the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
is a kind of aftermath, consequence

1.  fruit(v = verb.creation) - cause to bear fruit;
Derived forms noun fruit₁, noun fruitage₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  fruit(v = verb.creation) - bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
is one way to bear, turn out
Derived forms noun fruit₁, noun fruitage₁, noun fruition₁
Sample sentences: Something ----s

1.  Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural. [1913 Webster]
"Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof." [1913 Webster]

2.  The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. [1913 Webster]

3.  The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it. [1913 Webster]
" Fruits are classified as fleshy, drupaceous, and dry. Fleshy fruits include berries, gourds, and melons, orangelike fruits and pomes; drupaceous fruits are stony within and fleshy without, as peaches, plums, and cherries; and dry fruits are further divided into achenes, follicles, legumes, capsules, nuts, and several other kinds." [1913 Webster]

4.  The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them. [1913 Webster]

5.  The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. [1913 Webster]

6.  That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. [1913 Webster]
" Fruit is frequently used adjectively, signifying of, for, or pertaining to a fruit or fruits; as, fruit bud; fruit frame; fruit jar; fruit knife; fruit loft; fruit show; fruit stall; fruit tree; etc." [1913 Webster]
"King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown." [1913 Webster]
"The fruit of rashness." [1913 Webster]
"What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain." [1913 Webster]
"They shall eat the fruit of their doings." [1913 Webster]
"The fruits of this education became visible." [1913 Webster]

   To bear fruit. Chesterfield. [1913 Webster]

fruit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the usu. sweet and fleshy edible product of a plant or tree, containing seed. b (in sing.) these in quantity (eats fruit).
2 the seed of a plant or tree with its covering, e.g. an acorn, pea pod, cherry, etc.
3 (usu. in pl.) vegetables, grains, etc. used for food (fruits of the earth).
4 (usu. in pl.) the result of action etc., esp. as financial reward (fruits of his labours).
5 sl. esp. US a male homosexual.
6 Bibl. an offspring (the fruit of the womb; the fruit of his loins).
--v.intr. & tr. bear or cause to bear fruit.

Idiom:
fruit bar a piece of dried and pressed fruit. fruit-bat any large bat of the suborder Megachiroptera, feeding on fruit. fruit- (or fruiting-) body (pl. -ies) the spore-bearing part of a fungus. fruit cake
1 a cake containing dried fruit.
2 sl. an eccentric or mad person. fruit cocktail a finely-chopped usu. tinned fruit salad. fruit fly (pl. flies) any of various flies, esp. of the genus Drosophila, having larvae that feed on fruit. fruit machine Brit. a coin-operated gaming machine giving random combinations of symbols often representing fruit.
fruit salad
1 various fruits cut up and served in syrup, juice, etc.
2 sl. a display of medals etc. fruit sugar fructose. fruit-tree a tree grown for its fruit. fruit-wood the wood of a fruit-tree, esp. when used in furniture.

Derivative:
fruitage n. fruited adj. (also in comb.).

Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L fructus fruit, enjoyment f. frui enjoy

N  acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

N  effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.

N  production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

accessory fruit, aggregate fruit, banana passion fruit, bear fruit, candied fruit, citrous fruit, citrus fruit, crystallized fruit, dried fruit, edible fruit, false fruit, forbidden fruit, french dressing for fruit salad, fruit bar, fruit bat, fruit cocktail, fruit compote, fruit crush, fruit custard, fruit drink, fruit fly, fruit grower, fruit juice, fruit machine, fruit of the poisonous tree, fruit punch, fruit salad, fruit sugar, fruit tree, genipap fruit, grape fruit, key fruit, kiwi fruit, mediterranean fruit fly, multiple fruit, passion fruit, simple fruit, star fruit, stone fruit, tube-nosed fruit bat, ugli fruit