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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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The park sits on a 90-acre farm in Keynsham, near Bath, and was once a fruit farm after his dad bought the land more than 30 years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Md Emon Khan, 28, left his garment-factory job in Dhaka and returned to Rooppur, where he now sells vegetables and fruit to workers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Food as metaphor goes all the way back to the fruit in the Garden of Eden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Sergio, an artist in his own right, even constructed her first booth to resemble a fruit stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Instead, they ate fruit from Phillip’s bag and tried to make themselves comfortable on the beach.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

The fruits of the policy this season can be seen this season, with two players signed in the summer of 2024.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Restitution is rarely able to return all of someone’s lost money, but it is supposed to prevent the fraudster from enjoying the fruits of their crime.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The fruits of this conversation led to Dodd’s baptism at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in 1952.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Higher diesel prices were already pressuring prices for groceries — especially perishables that are trucked to stores, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

There were loaves fresh from the oven, a great slab of bacon, cheese, some dried herring, fruits from the garden, and, last of all, a pasty was set in the top.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

Before long, most cuisines had some sort of fruited breads or cakes that were early versions of the modern fruitcake.

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

"The newly decorated restaurant, Hoo's On First, the eatery of athletes, will hold its grand reopening on Sunday. Specialty of the day: fruited sea bass on purple waves."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

Taczanowskia waska closely resembles the fruiting body of fungi in the genus Gibellula, which grow on spiders.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

His photography focuses on the fruiting bodies of the slime mould, where the colour and drama are most intense, and from where spores are released.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

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

You’ve been up Kindcreek Road before; it cuts through a wild patch of hill country, flanked by fruiting prickly pears and disheveled oak.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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