fruitとは

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: fro͞ot, IPA^(key): /fɹuːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɹut/
• 韻: -uːt

名詞

fruit (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fruits) (see Usage notes for discussion of 複数形)

1. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

   While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.

2. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

   Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.

3. 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.

   • Shakespeare

     the fruit of rashness

   • Bible, Isaiah iii. 10

     They shall eat the fruit of their doings.

   • Macaulay

     The fruits of this education became visible.

4. Offspring from a sexual union.

   Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

   The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

   • Shakespeare

     King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown

5. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.
6. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

使用する際の注意点

• In the botanical and figurative senses, fruit is usually treated as uncountable:

  a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit.

• fruits is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense:

  berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits; the fruits of this plant split into two parts.

• When fruit is treated as uncountable in the botanical sense, a piece of fruit is often used as a singulative.
• In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits.
• The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.

派生語

関連する語

• frugivore
• frugivorous

動詞

fruit (三人称単数 現在形 fruits, 現在分詞 fruiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 fruited)

1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
   • 1910, Canada Experimental Farms Service, Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms:

     It may be said, however, that the percentage of green apples among the Fameuse seedlings is much less than among the others as out of 33 Fameuse seedlings which had fruited up to this year, none was green and we recollect but one light coloured Fameuse seedling fruiting this year.

   • 1998, Randy Molina & David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests, →ISBN, page 10:

     For example, chanterelles and russulas can start fruiting in early to mid summer given sufficient moisture, but other species, such as matsutake, rarely fruit until temperatures cool in the autumn, even if moisture is available earlier.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 12:

     The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.

参考

• Category:Fruits for a list of fruits

Further reading

• Fruit on Wikipedia.
• List of fruits on Wikipedia.