Fruits vs. Nuts — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fruits and Nuts
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Fruits
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.
Nuts
Crazy or foolish.
Fruits
An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
Nuts
Extremely enthusiastic
I'm nuts about opera.
Fruits
A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food
Fruit for dessert.
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Nuts
Used to express contempt, disappointment, or refusal.
Fruits
The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
Nuts
Plural of nut
Fruits
A plant crop or product
The fruits of the earth.
Nuts
(poker) An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.
If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.
Fruits
Result; outcome
The fruit of their labor.
Nuts
(colloquial) Insane, mad.
After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
Fruits
Offspring; progeny.
Nuts
Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
Fruits
A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
Nuts
(colloquial) Very fond of (on) someone.
He's been nuts on her since the day they met.
Fruits
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
Nuts
Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
Fruits
To produce or cause to produce fruit.
Nuts
Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.}}
They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!
Fruits
Plural of fruit
Nuts
Crazy; loony; insane; batty; - used in a predicate position, ususually in phrases such as to go nuts, went nuts, are you nuts?
Nuts
An expression of disapproval, defiance, or displeasure, as in: "Ah, nuts! My knife just broke."
Nuts
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular;
It used to drive my husband balmy
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