fruit

1. 1.

   cause to bear fruit
2. 2.

   bear fruit

   “the trees fruited early this year”

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Other forms of fruit

plural

fruits·

past tense

fruited·

present participle

fruiting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fruit

What does fruit mean?

fruit means "the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fruit?

fruit has 1 syllable: fruit. In IPA it is /ˈfɹut/.

What is another word for fruit?

Close synonyms include yield. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fruit a common word?

fruit is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fruit?

2 words rhyme with fruit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.