καρπός — meaning in English

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.
• wrist noun The joint connecting the hand to the forearm.

Senses

καρπός is used for these senses in English:

• fruit The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
• fruit (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
• harvest (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
• wrist (anatomy) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.

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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