fruit body

  • 21fruit — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from frut, fruit, from Latin fructus fruit, use, from frui to enjoy, have the use of more at brook Date: 12th century 1. a. a product of plant growth (as grain, vegetables, or cotton) <&#8230; …

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  • 22fruit bat — any fruit eating bat, esp. of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous&#8230; …

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  • 23fruit — The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food. The edible reproductive body of a seed plant. The effect or consequence of an act or operation. @ civil fruits In the civil law (fructus civiles) are such things as the&#8230; …

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  • 24fruit — The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food. The edible reproductive body of a seed plant. The effect or consequence of an act or operation. @ civil fruits In the civil law (fructus civiles) are such things as the&#8230; …

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  • 25Body Bags (album) — Infobox Album Name = Prophet Posse 2 Type = studio Artist = Prophet Posse Released = 2006 Recorded = Genre = Southern Rap, Horrorcore Memphis rap Length = Label = Prophet Entertainment Producer = Nicky Scarfo Reviews = | Last album = Body Parts&#8230; …

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  • 26fruit — [12] English acquired fruit via Old French fruit from Latin frūctus, a source more clearly on display in fructify [14], fructose [19], etc. The underlying meaning of the Latin noun seems to have been ‘enjoyment of that which is produced’, for it&#8230; …

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  • 27fruit — [12] English acquired fruit via Old French fruit from Latin frūctus, a source more clearly on display in fructify [14], fructose [19], etc. The underlying meaning of the Latin noun seems to have been ‘enjoyment of that which is produced’, for it&#8230; …

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  • 28Body fitness — Culturisme Le bodybuilder Markus Rühl en démonstration à Biberach an der Riß (Allemagne). Le culturisme ou bodybuilding («&#160;construction du corps&#160;», en anglais), est un sport qui consiste principalement à développer sa masse musculaire&#8230; …

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  • 29fruiting body — fruit·ing body früt iŋ n a plant organ specialized for producing spores esp SPOROPHORE * * * a specialized structure that produces spores; see illustration at mold and see also carp …

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  • 30fruiting body — fruit′ing bod′y n. bot fng an organ that produces spores • Etymology: 1915–20 …

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