FRUIT TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruit tree mean? 

• FRUIT TREE (noun)
  The noun FRUIT TREE has 1 sense:

1. tree bearing edible fruit

  Familiarity information: FRUIT TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUIT TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tree bearing edible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fruit tree" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Meronyms (substance of "fruit tree"):

fruitwood (wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fruit tree"):

akee; akee tree; Blighia sapida (widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh)

plum; plum tree (any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone)

plumcot; plumcot tree (hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca)

apricot; apricot tree (Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach)

cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)

almond tree (any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts)

peach; peach tree; Prunus persica (cultivated in temperate regions)

nectarine; nectarine tree; Prunus persica nectarina (variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh)

pear; pear tree; Pyrus communis (Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties)

genipa (any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind)

Averrhoa carambola; carambola; carambola tree (East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit)

Averrhoa bilimbi; bilimbi (East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit)

citrus; citrus tree (any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds)

dika; Irvingia gabonensis; wild mango; wild mango tree (African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites)

medlar; medlar tree; Mespilus germanica (small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples)

Dimocarpus longan; Euphorbia litchi; longan; longanberry; lungen; Nephelium longana (tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium)

lichee; litchi; Litchi chinensis; litchi tree; Nephelium litchi (Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium)

genip; ginep; honey berry; mamoncillo; Melicocca bijuga; Melicocca bijugatus; Spanish lime; Spanish lime tree (tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp)

Nephelium lappaceum; rambotan; rambutan; rambutan tree (Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit)

Nephelium mutabile; pulasan; pulasan tree; pulassan (East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan)

Mangifera indica; mango; mango tree (large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit)

hog plum; Spondias mombin; yellow mombin; yellow mombin tree (tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit)

jocote; mombin; mombin tree; Spondias purpurea (common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit)

persimmon; persimmon tree (any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros)

caimito; Chrysophyllum cainito; star apple (evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides)

Achras zapota; Manilkara zapota; sapodilla; sapodilla tree (large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras)

canistel; canistel tree; Pouteria campechiana nervosa (tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit)

Brazilian guava; Psidium guineense (South American tree having fruit similar to the true guava)

avocado; avocado tree; Persea Americana (tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits)

durian; durian tree; Durio zibethinus; durion (tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind)

mustard tree; Salvadora persica; toothbrush tree (glabrous or pubescent evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Salvadora; twigs are fibrous and in some parts of the world are bound together in clusters and used as a toothbrush; shoots are used as camel fodder; plant ash provides salt)

olive tree (a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit)

anchovy pear; anchovy pear tree; Grias cauliflora (West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango)

Eugenia corynantha; sour cherry (Australian tree with sour red fruit)

Eugenia uniflora; pitanga; Surinam cherry (Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida)

Eugenia jambos; jambosa; rose-apple tree; rose apple (tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit)

jaboticaba; jaboticaba tree; Myrciaria cauliflora (small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches)

guava; guava bush; Psidium guajava; true guava (small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit)

guava; Psidium littorale; strawberry guava; yellow cattley guava (small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit)

cattley guava; Psidium cattleianum; Psidium littorale longipes; purple strawberry guava (small tropical shrubby tree bearing deep red oval fruit)

custard apple; custard apple tree (any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp)

pomegranate; pomegranate tree; Punica granatum (shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit)

Garcinia mangostana; mangosteen; mangosteen tree (East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit)

mamey; Mammea americana; mammee; mammee apple; mammee tree (tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind)

Carica papaya; melon tree; papaia; papaya; papaya tree; pawpaw (tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit)

mulberry; mulberry tree (any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry)

Artocarpus altilis; Artocarpus communis; breadfruit; breadfruit tree (native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread)

Artocarpus heterophyllus; jackfruit; jackfruit tree (East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds)

Artocarpus odoratissima; marang; marang tree (Philippine tree similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit)

Chrysobalanus icaco; coco plum; coco plum tree; cocoa plum; icaco (small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit)

Cydonia oblonga; quince; quince bush (small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated)

Eriobotrya japonica; Japanese medlar; Japanese plum; loquat; loquat tree (evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan)

apple tree (any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits)

 Context examples 

The whole place was terraced for taro-patches, fruit trees grew there, and there were eight or ten grass huts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There will be chickens, pigs, vegetables, fruit trees, and everything like that; and there will be enough cows to pay for a hired man or two.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a lovely country, with plenty of flowers and fruit trees and sunshine to cheer them, and had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow, they could have been very happy.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)