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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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In 2024, the FlyWire Consortium, led by Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung at Princeton, who are also co-authors of the new study, published a complete connectome of a fruit fly brain.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

The wishes are left dangling amid the tree leaves, like budding fruit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Congrats to everyone in Cupertino on picking the lowest-hanging fruit in my life.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026

We also have a barn and 2 acres of grapes and fruit trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Instead, they ate fruit from Phillip’s bag and tried to make themselves comfortable on the beach.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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