fruit tree

See also: fruit-tree

English

Alternative forms

• fruit-tree (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹu(ː)t tɹiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fruit tree (plural fruit trees)

1. A tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.
   • 1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17:

     The countryside of eastern Bohemia is cultivated intensely. Fruit trees grow thickly alongside the roads instead of the hawthorn hedges common in England.

Hypernyms

• tree

Related terms

• food tree

Translations

a tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis

Afrikaans: vrugteboom Arabic: please add this translation if you can Aromanian: pom Bulgarian: овошка f (ovoška) Burmese: သီးပင် (my) (si:pang) Catalan: fruiter m Chinese: Mandarin: 果樹 / 果树 (zh) (guǒshù) Classical Nahuatl: xōchihcualcuahuitl Crimean Tatar: meyva teregi Danish: frugttræ (da) n Dutch: fruitboom (nl) m Faroese: frukttræ n Finnish: hedelmäpuu (fi) French: arbre fruitier (fr) m Galician: árbore froiteira f German: Obstbaum (de) m Hungarian: gyümölcsfa (hu) Icelandic: ávaxtatré n Italian: albero da frutto m Japanese: 果樹 (ja) (かじゅ, kaju) Korean: 과수 (ko) (gwasu) Latin: pōmus (la) Latvian: augļu koks m Lithuanian: vaismedis m Luxembourgish: Uebstbam m Maori: rākau whai hua Navajo: tsin bineestʼąʼ hólónígíí Ngazidja Comorian: mri wa marunda class 3/4 Norwegian: Bokmål: frukttre n Nynorsk: frukttre n Polish: drzewo owocowe n Portuguese: árvore frutífera f, fruteira (pt) f Romanian: pom (ro) m Russian: плодо́вое де́рево n (plodóvoje dérevo), фрукто́вое де́рево n (fruktóvoje dérevo) Scottish Gaelic: meas-chraobh f, craobh-mheas f Spanish: árbol frutal m Swahili: mti wa matunda class 3/4 Swedish: fruktträd (sv) n Telugu: పండ్ల చెట్టు (te) (paṇḍla ceṭṭu) Turkish: meyve ağacı (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: cây ăn quả, cây ăn trái Volapük: flukabim (vo) Yiddish: פֿרוכטבוים (frukhtboym)

References

• fruit tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia