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fruit

Obst

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
fruit
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] die Frucht
3. [2] Obst
[1] We've got lots of fruits.
Wir haben eine Menge Früchte.
[1] "The name pineapple is derived from the circumstance of the fruit being covered on all sides with small triangular scales, resembling the cone of a pine-tree."
Englisch > Englisch
fruit
1. subst. (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. subst. 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. subst. 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. subst. 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. subst. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.
6. subst. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
7. v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
Deutsch > Englisch
Obst
1. subst. fruit (food)
Heute esse ich nur Obst. - Today I only eat fruit.
2. subst. cocaine