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Fruit

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.

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Achene 76% connected

Alt. of Achenium

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Acorn 76% connected

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

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Berry 76% connected

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

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Capitulum 76% connected

A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.

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Chokecherry 76% connected

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

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Cubeb 76% connected

The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various t…

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Drupe 76% connected

A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the…

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Ear 76% connected

The organ of hearing; the external ear.

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Gourd 76% connected

A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagena…

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Hagberry 76% connected

A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.

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Hip 76% connected

The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

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Olive 76% connected

A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivate…

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Pod 76% connected

A bag; a pouch.

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Pome 76% connected

A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an app…

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Pseudocarp 76% connected

That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

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Pyxidium 76% connected

A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

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Pyxis 76% connected

A box; a pyx.

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Quandong 76% connected

The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.

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Schizocarp 76% connected

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Syncarp 76% connected

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit,…

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Aftermath 76% connected

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Consequence 76% connected

That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Derivationally related 12

Bear 74% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Bear 74% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Fructify 74% connected

To bear fruit.

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Fructify 74% connected

To bear fruit.

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Fruitage 74% connected

Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

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Fruitage 74% connected

Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

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Fruiterer 74% connected

One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

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Fruiterer 74% connected

One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

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Fruition 74% connected

Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.

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Fruition 74% connected

Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.

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Generate 74% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Generate 74% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Yield 92% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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