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Fruit vs. Nubbin — What's the Difference?

Fruit vs. Nubbin — What's the Difference?

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds.

Nubbin

A small stunted ear of corn.

Fruit

The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.

Nubbin

A small stunted or projecting part.

Fruit

An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
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Nubbin

A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.

Fruit

A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food
Fruit for dessert.

Nubbin

(informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.
As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.

Fruit

The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.

Nubbin

(slang) The clitoris.

Fruit

A plant crop or product
The fruits of the earth.

Nubbin

A small or imperfect ear of maize.

Fruit

Result; outcome
The fruit of their labor.

Nubbin

A small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)

Fruit

Offspring; progeny.

Fruit

A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.

Fruit

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

Fruit

To produce or cause to produce fruit.

Fruit

In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.

Fruit

Specifically, a sweet and/or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit see next sense, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.}}

Fruit

(botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:

Fruit

The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

Fruit

The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

Fruit

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

Fruit

(attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; of living things producing or consuming fruit.
Fresh-squeezed fruit juice
A fruit salad
An artificial fruit flavor
A fruit tree

Fruit

A homosexual man; an effeminate man.

Fruit

(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

Fruit

(informal) A crazy person.

Fruit

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Fruit

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; - commonly used in the plural.
Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in thefruits thereof.

Fruit

The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

Fruit

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

Fruit

The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

Fruit

The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.

Fruit

That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
The fruit of rashness.
What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.
They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
The fruits of this education became visible.

Fruit

To bear fruit.

Fruit

The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

Fruit

The consequence of some effort or action;
He lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies

Fruit

An amount of a product

Fruit

Cause to bear fruit

Fruit

Bear fruit;
The trees fruited early this year

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