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fructicole (verb), fructicoles; fructicoled; fructicoling: fruit
1. Living on or in fruits.
2. Inhabiting fruit; especially, parasitic fungi.
2. Inhabiting fruit; especially, parasitic fungi.
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
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frug-, fruct-
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fruit
1. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
2. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of a plant structure.
3. A part or an amount of a plant product, served as food.
4. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
5. A plant crop or product; such as, the fruits of the earth.
6. The consequence of some effort or action: result; outcome; such as, "the fruit of their labor".
7. Offspring; progeny.
8. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
9. Etymology: from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus, "fruit, produce, profit"; from frug-, stem of frui, "to use, to enjoy". The older sense is preserved in "the fruits of one's labor".
3. A part or an amount of a plant product, served as food.
4. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
5. A plant crop or product; such as, the fruits of the earth.
6. The consequence of some effort or action: result; outcome; such as, "the fruit of their labor".
7. Offspring; progeny.
8. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
9. Etymology: from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus, "fruit, produce, profit"; from frug-, stem of frui, "to use, to enjoy". The older sense is preserved in "the fruits of one's labor".
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nectarine (s), nectarines (pl): sweet, nectar, fruit
1. Of the nature of, sweet as, nectar; similar to or like nectar.
2. The smooth-skinned variety or mutation of a peach.
3. A variety of aromatic peach of ancient origin, having a smooth skin.
4. A variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit usually with yellow flesh.
2. The smooth-skinned variety or mutation of a peach.
3. A variety of aromatic peach of ancient origin, having a smooth skin.
4. A variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit usually with yellow flesh.
Probably inspired by German nektarpfirsich, "nectar-peach".
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(Greek: fruit [or similar reproductive result]; to cut, to pluck)
(Latin: fruit; from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus, "fruit, produce, profit" from frug-, stem of frui, "to use, to enjoy".)
(Latin: fruit, fruit tree)
(Latin: nut, kernel of a nut; stone of a fruit; central part of a cell)
(Latin: flesh, meat, fleshy parts of the body; fruit pulp; used mostly in reference to the tissue that exists in a tooth)
(Greek > Latin: fig [sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit that has numerous tiny seedlike fruits that are eaten fresh or preserved or dried])
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foliicole (verb), foliicoles; foliicoled; foliicoling: dry fruit
Living in dry fruit that contains many seeds which are released when ripe.
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folio-, foli-, folii-
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Fruits and Fruit Trees: Pomona
Greek: (no equivalent goddess)
Latin: Pomona (goddess)
Latin: Pomona (goddess)
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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Time flies like an arrow while fruit flies like a banana.
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Fruits help in the dispersion or spreading of the plant's seeds.
After fertilization, the ovary begins to develop into a fruit, and ovules into seeds. The seeds are carried off and will, if conditions are acceptable, eventually start new plants.
The seeds are spread in several ways:
- Light seeds are carried away by the wind; for example, dandelion seeds.
- Birds are attracted to some fruits and, after eating the fruit, they scatter seeds that are in their droppings.
- Barbed seeds stick to animals as they move among the plants and then the seeds eventually fall off or are scratched off.
- If some types of fruit are shaken by external forces; for example, by the wind, the seeds will drop out into the soil.
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Forbidden fruit (Genesis 2:9)
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