fruit

noun11

1. •
   the part of a plant that grows from its flower, often sweet and good to eat
2. •
   A product of fertilization in a plant.

   • [A]fter the flower is past commeth the fruit in long pods, every seede bunching out like the pods of Orobus and as bigge almost as the smaller Pease. — 1640
3. •
   The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
4. •
   [before a noun] Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

   • fresh-squeezed fruit juice
5. •
   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.
   • He spent his retirement enjoying the fruits of his labour.
6. •
   Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
7. •
   A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
8. •
   (informal, offensive) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.

   • "Moishe just checked in," he said. "He's a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race." — 1977
9. •
   (offensive, figurative) An effeminate man.
10. •
    (informal) A crazy person.
11. •
    (no longer used) Offspring from a sexual union.

    • The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

verb1

1. •
   To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

   • The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it. — 2014

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.