| inglés > español | |
| fruit | |
| 1. s. fruta | |
| 2. s. : I like to eat 'fruit' like apples = Me gusta comer la fruta tal como manzanas | |
| inglés > inglés | |
| fruit | |
| 1. s. (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. s. 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. s. 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. s. 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. s. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man. |  |
| 6. s. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit. |  |
| 7. v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. |  |
| español > inglés | |
| fruta | |
| 1. n-f. fruit (the seed-bearing part of a plant) |  |
| 2. n-f. fruit (any sweet, edible part of a plant) |  |
| 3. n-f. fruit (an end result, effect, or consequence) |  |