fruit

1. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:Examples: "[A]fter the flower is past commeth the fruit in long pods, every seede bunching out like the pods of Orobus and as bigge almost as the smaller Pease."countableuncountable

2. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:countableuncountable

3. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:countableuncountable

4. (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.Examples: "fresh-squeezed fruit juice"; "a fruit salad"; "an artificial fruit flavor"attributivecountableuncountable

5. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man.Examples: ""Moishe just checked in," he said. "He's a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race.""; "I'm not talking to this twisted fruit anymore!"; "Aww, but he's so cute! / He's a fruit… Oh my fucking god! You will not believe who was here today!"Synonyms: batty boy, batty man, botter, bum chum, bumder, bummer, butt rider, chi chi mancolloquialcountabledatedderogatoryuncountable

6. (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.Examples: "The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier."; "fruit of one's loins"; "King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown"archaiccountableuncountable