<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>(especially collectively) fruit.</li><li>any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.</li><li>the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.</li><li>the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.</li><li>the spores and accessory organs of ferns, mosses, fungi, algae, or lichen.</li><li>anything produced or accruing; product, result, or effect; return or profit: the fruits of one's labors.</li><li>(Slang) Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay man.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with or without object) to bear or cause to bear fruit: a tree that fruits in late summer; careful pruning that sometimes fruits a tree.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>