English Dictionary

fruit

IPA（発音記号）

/fɹuːt/

名詞

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

日本語の意味

果物: 一般的に、植物が育った結果得られる、人間や動物に有用な産物。特に食用として親しまれる実 / 果実: 植物の実、特に食用可能なもの

She bought a basket of fresh fruit at the market to make jam.

彼女はジャムを作るために市場で新鮮な果物を一かご買った。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

意味（5）

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

His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

意味（6）

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

fresh-squeezed fruit juice

意味（7）

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

Moishe just checked in, he said. He's a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race.

意味（8）

(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

意味（9）

(informal) A crazy person.

fruits （ plural ）