The fruits or the fruit of someone's work or activity are the good things that result from it. The team have really worked hard and Mansell is enjoying the fruits of that labour The findings are the fruit of more than three years research. see also dried fruit, forbidden fruit, kiwi fruit, passion fruit
the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year" cause to bear fruit
The reproductive structure that includes the inner seeds Mature fruits can be moist (such as the fleshy fruit of Pawpaw), mealy (such as the nuts of the Hickories), or dry (such as the wafers of the Elms)
The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body
If a plant fruits, it produces fruit. The scientists will study the variety of trees and observe which are fruiting