different between fruit vs medlar

English

Etymology

From Middle English frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fructus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and fr?x (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Middle English ovet ("fruit", from Old English ofett; see English ovest), Middle English wastom, wastum ("fruit, growth", from Old English wæstm), and Middle English blede ("fruit, flower, offspring", from Old English bl?d; see English blead).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fro?ot, IPA^(key): /f?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f?ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

fruit (countable and uncountable, plural fruits) (see Usage notes for discussion of plural)

1. (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
2. 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.
3. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
   1. The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
   2. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
4. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
5. (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

6. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figuratively) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
7. (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

Usage notes

• 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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fructose
• frugivore
• frugivorous

Descendants

• Bislama: frut
• Jamaican Creole: fruut
• ? Japanese: ???? (fur?tsu)

Translations

Verb

fruit (third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited)

1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Translations

See also

• Category:Fruits for a list of fruits

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fructus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?f?ujt/

Noun

fruit m (plural fruits)

1. A fruit.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frœy?t/
• Hyphenation: fruit
• Rhymes: -œy?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch fruut, froyt, from Old French fruit, from Latin fr?ctus. Doublet of vrucht.

Noun

fruit n (uncountable)

1. (usually collective) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable; only literal sense)

Synonyms

• ooft (archaic)
• vrucht (also metaphorical result)

Derived terms

• fruitachtig
• fruitig
• fruitmand
• fruitpap
• fruitpers
• fruitschaal
• fruitsoort
• fruitsuiker
• fruittaart
• fruitvlieg

- fruit types

• boomfruit
• steenfruit

Related terms

• grapefruit

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch fruten, older friten (“to fry”), from Old French frit, past participle of frire (“to fry”).

Verb

fruit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of fruiten
2. imperative of fruiten

French

Etymology

From Middle French fruict, a latinized spelling of Old French fruit, from Latin fr?ctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??i/
• Homophone: fruits

Noun

fruit m (plural fruits)

1. fruit

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: fwi

Further reading

• “fruit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

fruit (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of frute

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fructus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fryi?t/

Noun

fruit m (oblique plural fruiz or fruitz, nominative singular fruiz or fruitz, nominative plural fruit)

1. fruit
   • circa 1170, Christian of Troyes, Érec et Énide

     Oisiaus et veneison et fruit

     bird, venison and fruit

Descendants

• Gallo: frut
• Middle French: fruict
  • French: fruit
    • Haitian Creole: fwi
• Norman: frit
• Picard: frut
• Walloon: frut
• ? Middle Dutch: fruut, froyt
  • Dutch: fruit
• ? Middle English: frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut, freut
  • English: fruit
    • Bislama: frut
    • Jamaican Creole: fruut
    • ? Japanese: ???? (fur?tsu)
  • Scots: fruit, frute
  • ? Cornish: frut

English

Etymology

Via Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespil?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?dl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?dl?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?medl?/

Noun

medlar (plural medlars)

1. Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica)
2. Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
3. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit
   1. Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae)
   2. Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae)
   3. Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae)
   4. Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae)
   5. African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae)
   6. Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.),
4. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
   1. especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.

      Synonym: open arse

5. (derogatory, intended sexually) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance mimics an "open-arse")
   • c. 1604: Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare

     I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.

Derived terms

• African medlar (Vangueria infausta)
• common medlar (Mespilus germanica)
• Dutch medlar (Mespilus germanica)
• Japan medlar, Japanese medlar (loquat)
• Mediterranean medlar (Crataegus azarolus)
• Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus)
• red medlar (Lycium spp.)
• Savoy medlar (Amelanchier ovalis)
• Spanish medlar (Mimusops elengi
• Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens)
• Welsh medlar (Crataegus azarolus)

Translations

References

• medlar at OneLook Dictionary Search
• medlar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Mespilus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mespilus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mespilus at Plants of the World Online
• Crataegus at Plants of the World Online
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “medlar”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Del Mar, Delmar, dermal, mardle, marled, merlad

Swedish

Verb

medlar

1. present tense of medla.

Anagrams

• armled