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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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"We are a craft producer here in Somerset and are proud of the fact we take from local orchards, traditional orchards, and use the fruit that is available here in this county."

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Maria Martinez, who rises at 3am every day to sell fruit, chemicals and more from a market in Paraguay's capital, says sales have hit rock bottom since Ueno Bank's demise.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Fructose is a naturally occurring sugar found in fruit, honey, and other foods.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The company says it’s making targeted investments in driver acquisition, retention and reactivation in those regions, a strategy that it says has worked in the past and is starting to bear fruit this time around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Our fruit trees that give us mountain apples, papayas, and mangoes.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Your savings should provide a balance between financial security and enjoying the fruits of your labor while you can.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

"They will now see some fruits of their efforts."

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Incorporating these fruits into meals does not require a complicated eating plan.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Farmworkers – who harvested cotton, vegetables and fruits — organized and marched for roughly 400 miles from the Valley to Austin to demand fair wages and better working conditions.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Elisha had calculated the supplies they’d need: salted meats, dried fruits, hard biscuits, scientific instruments, even smaller boats.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The explanation for their propinquity lies not in the creation of some whiz-bang, life-changing, paradigm-bending consumer product, or the shining virtues or particularly fertile minds that grace Silicon Valley’s fruited plain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025

European fruitcakes are more like the medieval fruited bread than the versions made in Great Britain and the United States.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

Home to Lincoln Beer Company, patrons can sip on the brewery’s “perfectly pineapple” fruited wheat pints within sight of the building’s towers, reaching nobly into the Southern California skies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

According to Olawuyi, that extra warmth helped covered plants reach the fruiting stage earlier than plants grown without the textile.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

"It formed this enormous kind of white, coraloid fruiting body," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

A fully realized edible garden, complete with raised beds and fruiting trees, enhances the property’s sense of abundance and connection to nature.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

To enable robots to navigate fields and harvest efficiently, many farms would need to plant fruiting walls—apple trees that have been trained to grow in dense canopies against flat vertical surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

I couldn't make it now without money, however, as there is very little fruiting agriculture down here at this time.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer


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