fruit

«fruit» in Mova's school dictionary: the sweet or juicy part of a plant that holds its seeds… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (fruit — usually no plural for the food; fruits — kinds of fruit); verb (fruit — to make fruit)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fruit is the sweet or juicy part of a plant that holds its seeds and that you can eat, like an apple, a pear, a plum or a banana. tree →

2) In science, a fruit is any part of a flowering plant that grows from the flower and holds seeds, so tomatoes and peppers are fruits too. tree →

3) The fruits of work are its good results. tree →

sense in the lessons

the kind that includes apples, pears, plums and bananas («How many fruits are on the table?» counts all of them together); in everyday life healthy eating, fruit salad, fruit juice; in science seeds and how plants spread them

examples

• How many fruits are on the table? tree →
• Mia has 3 apples and 4 pears. How many pieces of fruit does she have? tree →
• A bowl holds 12 fruits. tree →
• Eat some fruit every day. tree →
• Oranges, grapes and kiwis are fruits. tree →
• Mum made a fruit salad for dessert. tree →
• A tomato is a fruit in science but we cook it like a vegetable. tree →
• Birds eat fruit and spread the seeds. tree →
• King Vuislaf has an apple-tree which bears golden fruits. tree →

note

«fruit» is usually uncountable for food (some fruit, a piece of fruit); «fruits» is used for kinds or when counting. «How many fruits» counts all apples, pears, plums and bananas together. Trap: do not count cups, spoons, books or pencils as fruit.

In the corpora

• Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings.
• Detection dogs are trained to sniff out things such as drugs, explosives, fruit carried in bags, money and even some illnesses.
• Big fruit bats called flying foxes have large eyes for dim light, and most of them do not echolocate at all.
• Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.
• Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fruit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.