fruit

(often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.

Specifically, a sweet and/or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

(attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figuratively) an effeminate man.

(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

(informal) A crazy person.