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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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Besides water, much needed for the hours spent sweating in the swelter, his firetruck is chock-a-chocolate block with gifts of cakes, fruit compotes and other kind offerings.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Thousands of farmers grow strawberries across the Mahabaleshwar region, making the fruit one of the most profitable horticultural crops in western India.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

United Parcel Service raised its full-year outlook after revenue climbed in the second quarter, as the company said its yearslong restructuring efforts are bearing fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

It left plenty of low-hanging fruit for me.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Fresh fruit was a wonderful and rare treat in wartime.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

“I really hope consumers can get back to trusting the fruits and vegetables they buy in stores, because they generally are safe.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Farms in the Central Valley, which produce large quantities of nuts, fruits, vegetables and dairy products, have rapidly depleted groundwater in many areas.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

The illness is caused by a parasite, cyclospora, that can contaminate food like salads, herbs and soft fruits.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

"We hope this place will bear the fruits of a deeper return to faith, or at least help people deepen their faith," said the parish priest Marek Mrowczynski.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

He carried an enormous wicker basket laden with jugs of milk, with cheese, honeycombs, and fruits that, in the lowlands, would not be in season for another month.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Jake looked down on purple waves for fruited sea.

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

"Seasons no longer follow a pattern. Flowering, fruiting, and harvesting all shift every year because of climate change," says Singh, now 62.

From BBC Feb. 19, 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

A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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