fruit

Translation

果物 / フルーツ / 実

Meaning 1: Food

The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seeds and can be eaten as food.

木や植物から採れる、種を含んだ甘くて果肉のある食べ物。

Examples

• This apple is a very sweet fruit.
  このリンゴはとても甘い果物です。
• We ate fresh fruit for breakfast.
  朝食に新鮮な果物を食べました。

Meaning 2: Figurative

The result or product of an action or effort.

Examples

• Hard work often bears fruit.
• His efforts finally bore fruit after many years.

Meaning 3: Botany

The seed-bearing structure of a flowering plant.

Examples

• The fruit develops from the ovary of a flower.
• This species of plant produces a fleshy fruit.