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fruit noun

  /fɹut/ , /fɹuːt/
  • The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
 Frucht, Obst
  • 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.
 Frucht, Obst, Früchte
  • (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
  • 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.
 Frucht, Obst, Spross, Sprössling
  • 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.
  • (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
  • (informal) A crazy person.
 Obst, Frucht
  • (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
 Obst, Frucht, Schwuchtel, Tunte, Schwuler

fruitful adjective

  /ˈfɹuːtfəl/
  • Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
  • Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
 fruchtbar

fruit verb

  /fɹut/ , /fɹuːt/
  • To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
 fruchten

fruitfulness noun

  • The state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.
 Fruchtbarkeit
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