fruit
verb/fruːt/
/fruːt/
[intransitive] (specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fruit | /fruːt/ /fruːt/ |
| he / she / it fruits | /fruːts/ /fruːts/ |
| past simple fruited | /ˈfruːtɪd/ /ˈfruːtɪd/ |
| past participle fruited | /ˈfruːtɪd/ /ˈfruːtɪd/ |
| -ing form fruiting | /ˈfruːtɪŋ/ /ˈfruːtɪŋ/ |
- (of a tree or plant) to produce fruitWord OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin fructus ‘enjoyment of produce, harvest’, from frui ‘enjoy’, related to fruges ‘fruits of the earth’, plural (and most common form) of frux, frug- ‘fruit’.
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