0 the first result of someone's effort or work:
These improvements in quality are the first fruits of our investment.
The failure time of an infructescence was defined as removal of the first fruit regardless of the total number removed.
They and the major chiefs conducted sowing and first fruit rituals.
Bunches were harvested when the first fruit began to ripen.
This was the first fruit of the trouble the composer had taken; he had every right to be pleased.
The number of days to 50 % flowering and to first fruit harvest were influenced by the cropping system.
An infructescence was considered to have survived until the first fruit was removed, and thus removal of one fruit constituted failure.
We may look upon this as a kind of first fruit of solvency.
That is the first fruit—and only the first fruit—of the very great efforts which we are making in the field of oils and fats.
