[
UK
/fɹˈuːt/
]
[ US /ˈfɹut/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹut/ ]
VERB
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bear fruit
the trees fruited early this year - cause to bear fruit
NOUN
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the consequence of some effort or action
he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
- an amount of a product
How To Use fruit In A Sentence
- Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
- Ballymaloe take a more seasonal approach to things by using redcurrant rather than lemon juice, made by simmering a couple of punnets of the astringent little fruits with water, and then pushing them through a sieve. How to make perfect strawberry jam
- The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful. Times, Sunday Times
- During 1901-02, a shop was built on what became Part Three of Lot 245, which was leased to fruiterer Albert Blencoe.
- I thought he was a bit of a fruitcake or an odd fish.
- In addition, experimental flowers that matured a fruit (and therefore received a visit) had significantly larger corollas compared with corollas of flowers that did not initiate a fruit.
- American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
- Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
- The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
- Especially the flowerage of spring time, with its many wild flowers and the rows of fruit trees along the fairways, make even the most ambitious golf player stop and contemplate nature's dazzling beauty.