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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

水果

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shuǐguǒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fruit/fruːt/
nounCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #950 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我每天都吃新鲜的水果。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.

    "She peeled a piece of fresh fruit for her afternoon snack."
  2. 2

    The result or reward of a work or activity.

    "The successful project was the fruit of many months of hard labor."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin fructus meaning "enjoyment, produce, fruit," stemming from frui "to use, enjoy." It entered Middle English via Old French frute before the 13th century, expanding from agricultural produce to botanical seed-bearing structures.

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