fruit

Noun
  1. The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant (synset 113155706)
    is a type of: reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction
    subtypes:
    • edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
    • juniper berry - berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
    • may apple - edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant
    • achene - small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
    • gourd - any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
    • prairie gourd - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
    • blue fig, quandong - the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
    • acorn - fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
    • olive - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
    • hip, rose hip, rosehip - the fruit of a rose plant
    • wild cherry - the fruit of the wild cherry tree
    • marasca - small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made
    • hagberry - small cherry much liked by birds
    • chokecherry - the fruit of the chokecherry tree
    • rowanberry - decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree
    • buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut - oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
    • capitulum, ear, spike - fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
    • fruitlet - a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit
    • seed - a small hard fruit
    • berry - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
    • aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
    • drupe, stone fruit - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
    • false fruit, pome - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
    • pod, seedpod - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
    • pyxidium, pyxis - fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released
    • accessory fruit, pseudocarp - fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry
    • buckthorn berry, yellow berry - fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
    • cubeb - spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
    • schizocarp - a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed
  2. An amount of a product (synset 104620079)
    is a type of: product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
    same as: yield
  3. The consequence of some effort or action (synset 107309308)
    "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
    is a type of: aftermath, consequence - the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
Verb
  1. Cause to bear fruit (synset 201656437)
    causes: fruit - bear fruit
  2. Bear fruit (synset 201656273)
    "the trees fruited early this year"
    is a type of: bear, turn out - bring forth

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