frug-, fruct- +
(Latin: fruit; from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus, "fruit, produce, profit" from frug-, stem of frui, "to use, to enjoy" (cognate with Old English brucan, "to enjoy")
fructescence
The maturing or ripening of fruit.
fructicole, fructicolous
1. Living on or in fruits.
2. Inhabiting fruit; especially, parasitic fungi.
fructiferous
1. Capable of bearing fruit.
2. Describes a tree or other plant that bears fruit.
fructification
1. The bearing or production of fruit.
2. The production of fruit or fruits by a tree or other plant.
3. Organs of fruiting; especially, the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses.
fructifier
Someone or a thing that fructifies; or that which causes or becomes productive or fruitful.
fructify
1. To make fruitful or productive.
2. To become productive or fruitful, or to cause to become productive or fruitful.
fructiparous
Producing fruit.
fructivorous, fructivore, fructivory
1. Existing on a diet composed of fruit.
2. Eating fruit.
fructose
1. A chemical name occurring in honey and many sweet fruits and a component of many disaccharides and polysaccharides that are obtained by inversion of aqueous solutions of sucrose and subsequent separation of fructose from glucose.
2. The official preparation, administered intravenously in solution as a fluid and nutrient replenisher.
3. A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits.
Fructose is a "sugar found in fruit', from 1864, coined in English from Latin fructus ccurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits. It is used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient. Also called: levulose and fruit sugar.
fructosuria
fructuary
1. Someone who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
2. A person who enjoys the "fruits" of anything.
fructuation
1. Coming to fruit or the bearing of fruit.
2. Producing fruit.
Fructu non foliis arborem aestima.
Judge a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
Another version is, "Judge by results, not by appearances."
fructuous
1. Fruitful; fertile; productive; profitable.
2. Productive of much fruit, or full of fruit.
fructure
Use; fruition; enjoyment.