A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
Specifically, a sweet and/or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
A crazy person.
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.