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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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He said the cancellation highlighted the challenges climate change posed for sustainable fruit growing.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

An ode to imperfect fruit: Tangerines that are a breeze to peel.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

And “Twilight Summer Sky,” the number performed on the rooftop of Stevie’s apartment building in Queens, represents perhaps the fruit of all the group’s effort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Florida’s orange production is down 95% since the arrival of a disease called citrus greening, which causes fruit to drop before it is ripe, and leaves it tasting bitter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Buzz gave Dan a pair of tennis shoes he had in his backpack and fed him syrup with a fruit roll.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

That would have been especially troublesome for a community whose religious festivals were closely connected with agriculture, harvests, first fruits, and the seasonal cycle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

"So, I believe that if we get to a situation in which there's no place to sell my fruits in Europe, we'll find other markets."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The youngest of four children, Kusama grew up in a family that farmed its vast land holdings and sold seeds for fruits, vegetables and flowers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

‘And peachy fruits as well. Now tell me what you were doing in our village.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

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

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

The orange blobs are mushroom-like "fruiting bodies" while the rest of the fungus is underground.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 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 look at the page, where the life cycle of the mushroom from spore to fruiting body is taking shape, and I know this with absolute certainty.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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