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水果 — meaning in English

shuǐ guǒ

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English meaning

  • fruit noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
  • harvest noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.
  • hip noun The joint and surrounding area where the leg meets the pelvis.
  • issue noun A subject or problem that people discuss or disagree about.

Senses

水果 is used for these senses in English:

  • fruit The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
  • fruit (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
  • harvest (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
  • hip The fruit of a rose.
  • issue (now, _, rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.

fruit — full definition

  1. noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.
  2. noun A good or bad result of effort or action.
  3. verb To produce fruit.

harvest — full definition

  1. noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.
  2. noun The season when crops are gathered, roughly early autumn.
  3. noun The reward or result that comes from an effort or action.
  4. verb To gather a ripe crop, or to collect something else useful (data, organs, resources) in a similar organized way.

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