Dictionary entry

Fruit fly

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) သစ်သီးယင်။

Definition

fruit / fru:t / n ၁။ [C,U] အသီး။ သစ္သီး။ tropical fruits, such as bananas and pineapples ❍ We need to buy fruit and vegetables. ❍ Do you prefer fresh or tinned fruit? ❍ dried fruit (eg currants (CURRANT ၁), etc used as food, esp in fruit cakes) ❍ fruit juice ❍ fruit trees. Compare VEGETABLE ၁. See also KIWI FRUIT, PASSION-FRUIT ၂။ [C] ( botany ) အသီး။ သစ္သီး။ ၃။ [C usu pl ] ( rhet ) အသီးအႏွံ။ ေျမထြက္သီးႏွံ။ the fruits of the earth (ie fruit, vegetables, cereals (CEREAL). ၄။ (esp the fruits [pl]) အသီးအပြင့္။ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္။ ရလဒ္။ enjoy the fruits of victory/ of one's labours. v အသီးသီးသည္။ သီးသည္။ The apple trees have fruited well this year. ❏ fruit cake n [C,U] သီးစံုကိတ္။ ❏ fruit fly n သစ္သီးယင္။ ❏ fruit machine ( Brit ) (also one-armed bandit, esp US slot machine) n စက္အေပါက္တြင္းသို႔ အေႂကြေစ့ထည့္ ဆြဲသည့္အခါ သစ္သီးပံုမ်ား တစ္တန္းလံုး ေပၚထြက္လာပါက အေႂကြေစ့မ်ား ထြက္က်လာေသာ ေလာင္းကစား စက္မ်ဳိး။ ❏ fruit salad n [U,C] ၁။ သီးစံုအခ်ဳိပြဲ။ ၂။ ( US ) သီးစံု ေက်ာက္ေက်ာ။

Examples

  1. Peaches are my favourite fruit.
  2. [fresh/dried/tinned fruit] : Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
  3. [a piece of fruit] : She always has a piece of fruit for dessert.
  4. A fruit tree
  5. [fruit juice/yoghurt] : Would you like water or fruit juice?
  6. A shrub with white flowers and small red fruits