true fruit
Americannoun
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A fruit in which all tissues are derived from a ripened ovary and its contents.
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Example Sentences
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These habits of mind, body and spirit are the true fruit of educational excellence.
From Washington Post
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 Project Gutenberg
Pantheists, he says in The Book of Truth, are “a fruit of hell, the more dangerous because they counterfeit the true fruit of the Spirit of God.”
From Project Gutenberg
It is too true that he has been over-eager to enjoy the fine fruits of life without the long and patient preparation for the harvest, but he has done and will still do infinite service to the modern world in insisting that the true fruit of life is a spiritual reality, never without pain and loss to be obscured or forgotten amid the vast mechanism of a material civilisation.
From Project Gutenberg
Those sausages in silver foil were the true fruit of Bologna, ripe and spicy, and there were chocolates, and dainty biscuits in tins, pickled mussels and Logos figs, anchovies and raisins and hams, real Estremadura, known to song and story.
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