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fruit

US /frut/

noun Core · B1 Ăn uống

Definition

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

The cafeteria serves fresh fruit with every lunch order.

Word Family

NounNoun
fruit gốc fruitage fruition
VerbVerb
fruit gốc fructify
AdjectiveAdj
fruity
AdverbAdv
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Synonyms

  • producefresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
  • cropthe yield from plants in a single growing season

Collocations

  • Easy fresh fruit basket
    describing fresh fruit basket (recently made, produced, or harvested)
  • Medium bear fruit after hard work
    to bear fruit after hard work, meaning to have
  • Hard fruits of economic labor
    to fruits of economic labor, meaning to cause to bear fruit
  • Very Hard fruit of poisonous tree doctrine
    to fruit of poisonous tree doctrine, meaning to cause to bear fruit

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