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a plant's bribe to animals: eat my babies, please scatter the survivors
means The sweet, seed-bearing part of a flowering plant that we eat, or more loosely the result or reward of any effort.
from From Latin 'fructus,' meaning enjoyment, produce, or profit — itself from 'frui,' to enjoy or have the use of. It arrived in English through Old French 'fruit' around the medieval period. The same Latin root quietly seeds 'fruition' and 'frugal,' and is a distant cousin of 'brook' in the sense of to tolerate or enjoy. So a fruit was first and foremost a thing enjoyed, the payoff — the literal sweetness came along for the ride.
- botanical truth
- tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins are all technically fruit
- banana lineage
- every Cavendish banana is a clone of one plant
- old trick
- figs predate written history as cultivated food
- strawberry lie
- its seeds are the real fruits, flesh is swollen stem
- ripening gas
- fruit emits ethylene to ripen its neighbors
mangosteen — purple tropical fruit from southeast asia, called 'queen of fruits,' contains xanthones with antioxidant properties
rambutan — hairy red fruit from malaysia and indonesia, name means 'hairy' in malay, sweet translucent flesh inside
horned melon — spiky orange fruit from africa, bright green jelly-like interior with edible seeds, also called kiwano