hedelmä — meaning in English

English meaning

• apple noun A round, firm fruit with red, green, or yellow skin and crisp white flesh, grown on trees.
• fruit noun The seed-bearing part of a plant, often sweet and eaten as food, such as an apple or orange.

Senses

hedelmä is used for these senses in English:

• apple Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1). [from 9th c.]
• fruit (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

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.

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