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The correct spelling is fruit.
How to pronounce fruit
/fɹuːt/
nounIPA: /fɹuːt/
Say it like: Frui-t
The correct spelling is fruit. (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. For example: "His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise."
Usage Examples
“His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.”
“the fresh-squeezed fruit juice; a fruit salad; an artificial fruit flavor; a fruit tree; a fruit bat”
“Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.(often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
- 2.Specifically, a sweet, 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.
- 3.A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
- 4.An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
- 5.Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
verb
- 1.To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
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