(plural unchanged) a part of a plant or tree that contains the seeds and is used as food, e.g. apples, bananas
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
Cases of word usage
1) a tree with a round fruit with firm juicy flesh and a thin (green, red or yellow) skin (apple)
2) (a kind of tree with) a round, yellow or orange fruit with soft flesh and a large seed (apricot)
3) a long, curved, thick-skinned (yellow when ripe) tropical fruit (banana)
4) a small cart with two wheels, pulled or pushed by hand, e.g. one used to sell fruit (barrow)
5) a small animal like a mouse with large wings that flies at night and feeds on fruit and insects (bat)
6) a small, soft fruit with seeds (berry)
7) a collection of the same fruit etc growing together (bunch)
8) (a kind of tree) with a soft, small, round fruit that is red, yellow or black when ripe and with a hard seed in the middle (cherry)
9) (of fruit etc) of the best quality (choice)
10) a yearly (or season's) produce of grain, fruit etc (crop)