Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
PRODUCE
I. verb (produced; producing) see: tow
Date: 15th century
transitive verb to offer to view or notice, to give birth or rise to ; yield , to extend in length, area, or volume , to make available for public exhibition or dissemination: as, to provide funding for , to oversee the making of ,
5. to cause to have existence or to happen ; bring about , to give being, form, or shape to ; make , to compose, create, or bring out by intellectual or physical effort, to cause to accrue, intransitive verb to bear, make, or yield something, producible adjective
II. noun
Date: 1695
1. something produced, the amount produced ; yield , agricultural products and especially fresh fruits and vegetables as distinguished from grain and other staple crops, the progeny usually of a female animal