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Noun fruit has 3 senses
  1. fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
    --1 is a kind of     reproductive structure
    --1 has particulars:
     edible fruit; juniper berry; May apple; achene; gourd; prairie gourd; quandong, blue fig; acorn; olive; hip, rose hip, rosehip; wild cherry; marasca; hagberry; chokecherry; rowanberry; buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut; ear, spike, capitulum; fruitlet; seed; berry; aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp; drupe, stone fruit; pome, false fruit; pod, seedpod; pyxidium, pyxis; accessory fruit, pseudocarp; buckthorn berry, yellow berry; cubeb; schizocarp
    Derived forms: verb fruit2, verb fruit1, verb fructify1, verb fructify3
  2. fruit - the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
    --2 is a kind of     consequence, aftermath
  3. yield, fruit - an amount of a product
    --3 is a kind of product, production
,Verb fruit has 2 senses
  1. fruit - cause to bear fruit
    Derived forms: noun fruit1, noun fruitage1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. fruit - bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
    --2 is one way to     bear, turn out
    Derived forms: noun fruit1, noun fruition1, noun fruitage1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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