Fruit meaning : (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals. Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), 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 the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result. Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit. A homosexual man; an effeminate man. Offspring from a sexual union. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.