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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#m2)

3) The fruits of work are its good results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x1)
- Mia has 3 apples and 4 pears. How many pieces of fruit does she have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x2)
- A bowl holds 12 fruits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x3)
- Eat some fruit every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x4)
- Oranges, grapes and kiwis are fruits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x5)
- Mum made a fruit salad for dessert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x6)
- A tomato is a fruit in science but we cook it like a vegetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x7)
- Birds eat fruit and spread the seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x8)
- King Vuislaf has an apple-tree which bears golden fruits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/17/)
- [Detection dogs are trained to sniff out things such as drugs, explosives, fruit carried in bags, money and even some illnesses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/6/)
- [Big fruit bats called flying foxes have large eyes for dim light, and most of them do not echolocate at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/6/)
- [Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/16/)
- [Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fruit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.