fruggin, frug on

[French fourgon.) (See extract.) "Fourgon. An oven-forke (termed in Lincoln shire [England] a fruggin ), wherewith fuel is both put into an oven and stirred when it is (on fire) in it."- Cotgrave . frû-gif-er-oŭs, a . [Lat. frugifer =fruit-bearing; frux (gen it. frug is )=fruit; fer ( o )=to bear, and Eng., ., suff.- ous .] IMG:content-0195.png:[blocks in formation] (3) Benefit, profit, advantage. "What fruit had ye in those things?"- Rom. vi. 21. II. Technically: 1. Bot . In a strict sense the ovary or pistil arrived at maturity, but more commonly the term is extended to embrace also whatever is combined with the ripe ovary. For instance, the pine-apple consists of a ma of bracts, calyces, corollas, and ovaries: and the common apple of a succulent superior calyx, corolla, and ovary. Like the pistil it may consist of one or several carpels. In the latter case the carpels may have coalesced, or may be separate. Gærtner, Mirbel, and various other botanists, have proposed cla ifications of fruits. The following is that of Dr. Lindley: Cla I. Fruit simple, Apocarp i. (1) Utriculus, (2) Achenium, (3) Drupa, (4) Folliculus, (5) Legumen, (6) Lomentum. Cla II. Fruit aggregate, Aggregati. (1) Etærio, (2) Syncarpium, (3) Cynarrhodum. Cla III. Fruit compound, Syncarp i. (1) Caryopsis, Carcerulus, A mph is arc a, (5) Pyxidium, (6) Regma, (7) Conceptaculum, (8) Siliqua, (9) Silicula, (10) Ceratium, (11) Capsula, (12) Hesperidium, (13) Nuculaneum, (14) Tryma, (15) Cremocarpium, (16) Glans, (17) Cypsela, (18) Diplotegia, (19) Pepo, (20) Balausta, (21) Васса, (22) Pomum. Cla IV. Collective fruits, Anthocarp i. (1) Diclesium, (2) Sphalerocarpium, (3) Syconus, (4) Strobilus, (5) Sorosis. A Spurious Fruit is any kind of inflorescence which grows up with a fruit and forms one body with it, as a pine cone. ( Treas . of Bot .) 2. Hort ., & c .: Of the several fruits cultivated or sold in this country and Europe, the almond-tree was brought to Europe from Barbary about A. D. 1548, the apple from Syria about 1522; the cherry tree in ancient times from Pontus; the gooseberry and the strawberry came from Flanders. fruit-bat, s. [ Eng.fruit, and bat.] Zool .: A species of bat making its diet on fruit; also called fruit-eating bat.