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")


frug, frugging
1. Fund raising under the guise of survey research.
2. Pretending to be conducting a survey when really trying to raise funds for some cause.
3. Considered to be unethical behavior by professional market researchers.
frugal
1. Economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful.
2. Entailing little expense; requiring few resources; meager; scanty.
3. Careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) inexpensive or small in amount.
4. Etymology: from Middle French (written and spoken c. 1400-c.1600) frugal, from Latin frugalis, frugi, "economical, useful, proper"; originally from frux, fruges, "fruit, profit, value"; related to fructus, "fruit".

Sense evolved in Latin from "useful" to "profitable" to "economical".

frugality (s), frugalities (pl)
Prudence, discretion, or careful management in avoiding waste.
frugally
In a frugal manner.
frugalness
1. Prudence in avoiding waste.
2. To use with restraint.
frugiferous
1. Bearing fruit.
2. Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
frugivora
The fruit bat; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats that live on fruits.
frugivore
1. Any chiefly fruit-eating organism or creature.
2. An animal, such as a chimpanzee or fruit bat, that feeds primarily on fruit.
frugivorous, frugivory, frugivorousness
1. Eating or feeding on fruit.
2. Feeding on fruit; such as, birds and other animals.
fruit
1. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
2. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of a plant structure.
3. A part or an amount of a plant product, served as food.
4. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
5. A plant crop or product; such as, the fruits of the earth.
6. The consequence of some effort or action: result; outcome; such as, "the fruit of their labor".
7. Offspring; progeny.
8. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
9. Etymology: from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus, "fruit, produce, profit"; from frug-, stem of frui, "to use, to enjoy". The older sense is preserved in "the fruits of one's labor".
fruitage
1. The bearing of fruit.
2. Fruits collectively.
3. The product or result of some effort.
fruitarian
1. Someone whose diet includes fruits, seeds, and nuts but no vegetables, grains, or animal products.
2. A person whose diet consists chiefly of fruit.
fruiterer
A dealer or seller of fruit.
fruiteress, fruitestere
A woman who sells fruit.
fruitery
1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
2. A repository or storage place for fruit.

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