| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| fruit |
| 1. n. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. |
| While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam. |
| 2. n. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables |
| Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert. |
| 3. n. 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. |
| 4. n. Offspring from a sexual union. |
| Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. |
| The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier. |
| 5. n. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man. |
| 6. n. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit. |
| 7. v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| frukt |
| 1. n-c. fruit |
