fruit vs malus

fruit

noun
  • An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 

verb
  • To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. 

malus

noun
  • A penalty or negative thing. 

  • The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance. 

  • A plant of the genus Malus (the apples). 

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