Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
- The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
- The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
- Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
- A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
- An end result, effect or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
- (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
- (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man.
- (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
- (informal) A crazy person.
Verbi
- To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
Esimerkit
- While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown
- His labours bore fruit.
- Fruit of the union
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | fruited | Imperfekti | fruited |
| Partisiipin preesens | fruiting | Monikko | fruits |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | fruits | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | fruiteth (vanhahtava) |