Fruit or a fruit is something which grows on a tree or bush and which contains seeds or a stone covered by a substance that you can eat.

If a plant fruits, it produces fruit.

The fruits or the fruit of someone's work or activity are the good things that result from it.

If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.

The first fruits or the first fruit of a project or activity are its earliest results or profits.