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fruiters

fruiters is the plural of fruiter.

Meaning of fruiter

Noun

fruiter (plural fruiters)

  1. Any organism that fruits.
    • Hypholoma mushrooms are very prolific fruiters.2015, Tradd Cotter, Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
  2. (historical) A ship for transporting fruit.
  3. (derogatory, slang) A homosexual man.
    • Because of increasing awareness during the 1930s, the police department added plainclothes officers to its parks and squares unit to keep the "fruiters" in check. They began surveillance of the known places where gay men might go to meet each other […]2006, William Lipsky, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, page 48

Questions about fruiters

What is fruiters the plural of?
Fruiters is the plural of fruiter.

Words near fruiters in the dictionary

  1. fruiterer
  2. fruiterers
  3. fruiteress
  4. fruiteresses
  5. fruiteries
  6. fruiters
  7. fruitery
  8. fruiteth
  9. fruitfest
  10. fruitflesh
  11. fruitflies

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