Word Meanings - NASEBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla.

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• 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. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever
• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• FRUITIVE
  Eujoying; possessing. Boyle.
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• FRUITION
  Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.
• FRUITLESS
  1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless
• FRUITERESS
  A woman who sells fruit.
• SAPODILLA
  A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree ; also, fruit of Achras Sapota. It is about the size of an ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously
• FRUITY
  Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.
• FRUITER
  A ship for carrying fruit.
• FRUITERY
  1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips. 2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.
• FRUITERER
  One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
• FRUITFUL
  Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish
• TROPICAL
  Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the
• FRUITING
  Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
• FRUITESTERE
  A fruiteress.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• GRAPE FRUIT
  The shaddock.
• OVERFRUITFUL
  Too fruitful.
• INTERTROPICAL
  Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.
• EXTRATROPICAL
  Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.
• INTRATROPICAL
  Within the tropics.
• SUBTROPICAL
  Nearly tropical.
• KEY FRUIT
  A samara.
• CREAM-FRUIT
  A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.