FRUIT

I. noun Usage: often attributive see: brook Date: 12th century 1. a product of plant growth (as grain, vegetables, or cotton) , b. the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant, a succulent plant part (as the petioles of a rhubarb plant) used chiefly in a dessert or sweet course, a dish, quantity, or diet of ~s , a product of fertilization in a plant with its modified envelopes or appendages, the flavor or aroma of fresh ~ in mature wine, offspring , progeny , 3. the state of bearing ~ , the effect or consequence of an action or operation ; product , result , a male homosexual, ~ed adjective II. verb Date: 14th century intransitive verb to bear ~, transitive verb to cause to bear ~