true fruit

American  

noun

1. simple fruit.

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true fruit Scientific  

1. A fruit in which all tissues are derived from a ripened ovary and its contents.

2. See more at fruit Compare accessory fruit

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true fruit

There were others who believed that the Christian moral system must remain, because it had commended itself to man's nature as the highest and best and was the true fruit of evolutionary progress.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate?

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Kleiser, Grenville

Its true fruit takes time to flower and swell and come to ripeness and sweetness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

That is, I have planted the seed that will produce the true fruit, and it is for others only to cultivate and nourish what I have planted.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by Reber, George

They open as nuts do, and then you will find a kernel inside which is the true fruit.’

From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne