breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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(noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
eggfruit | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: canistel |
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fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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(noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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(verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
(verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
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fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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frugal | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, scotch, sparing, stinting |
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frugality | (noun) prudence in avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugalness |
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frugally | (adverb) in a frugal manner | - |
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frugalness | (noun) prudence in avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugality |
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fruit | (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: yield |
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(noun) the consequence of some effort or action | - |
(noun) the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | - |
(verb) bear fruit | - |
(verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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(noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
fruiterer | (noun) a person who sells fruit | - |
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fruitful | (adjective) productive or conducive to producing in abundance | - |
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fruitfully | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: productively, profitably |
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fruitfulness | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fecundity |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fecundity |
fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
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fruition | (noun) something that is made real or concrete | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
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(noun) enjoyment derived from use or possession | - |
(noun) the condition of bearing fruit | - |
fruitless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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fruitlessly | (adverb) in an unproductive manner | Synonyms: unproductively, unprofitably |
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fruitlessness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, barrenness |
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(noun) a lack of creative imagination | - |
fruitlet | (noun) a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit | - |
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fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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fruity | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit | - |
frumenty | (noun) sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat | - |
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frump | (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: dog |
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frumpily | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: dowdily, frumpishly |
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frumpish | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpy |
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frumpishly | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: dowdily, frumpily |
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frumpy | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpish |
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frustrate | (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, rag, torment |
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(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
frustrated | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, thwarted |
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frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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(adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
frustration | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, thwarting |
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(noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: defeat |
(noun) a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized | - |
frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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frustum | (noun) a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed | - |
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fruticose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticulose, shrubby |
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fruticulose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, shrubby |
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grapefruit | (noun) large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half | - |
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(noun) citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp | Synonyms: Citrus paradisi |
infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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jackfruit | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jak |
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(noun) East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds | Synonyms: Artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit tree |
suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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suffrutex | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: subshrub |
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unfruitful | (adjective) not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production | - |
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usufruct | (noun) a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way | - |
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usufructuary | (adjective) of or relating to the nature of a usufruct | - |
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(noun) someone who holds property by usufruct | - |