Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
FRUIT
I. noun
Usage: often attributive see: brook
Date: 12th century
1. a product of plant growth (as grain, vegetables, or cotton) , b. the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant, a succulent plant part (as the petioles of a rhubarb plant) used chiefly in a dessert or sweet course, a dish, quantity, or diet of fruits , a product of fertilization in a plant with its modified envelopes or appendages, the flavor or aroma of fresh fruit in mature wine, offspring , progeny ,
3. the state of bearing fruit , the effect or consequence of an action or operation ; product , result , a male homosexual, fruited adjective
II. verb
Date: 14th century
intransitive verb to bear fruit, transitive verb to cause to bear fruit