Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Fruit
fruit, n. [L.]
- Food; yield; crop; harvest; sweet nutritious pericarp of a seed; [fig.] object of desire; deceased loved one.
- Phrase. “Forbidden Fruit”: enticement; temptation; seduction; alluring matter; unlawful action; that which is proscribed; (see Genesis 3:3).
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