Fruit
Fruit noun - The descendants of a person, animal, or plant.
Usage example: according to the Bible, God promised Abraham that the fruit of his loins would someday become a great nation
Stock
Stock noun - A group of persons who come from the same ancestor.
How words are described
| human | human fruit | human stock |
| old | old fruit | old stock |
| good | good fruit | good stock |
| rare | rare fruit | rare stock |
| Other adjectives: fresh, particular, original, small, real, large, wrong, white, new, extra, remaining, last, different, local. | ||
Common collocations
| apple | fruit apple | stock apple |
Both words in one sentence
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Parodied in the "Dog City" episode of The Jim Henson Hour, in which the chase between Ace and Bugsy does indeed knock over a fruit cart, but it turns out to stock squeaky toys that happen to be shaped like fruit.
Source: Fruit Cart -
Stock Sound Effects: The same sound effect used to note you have found something shiny is here used for when you have found fruit-bearing trees or bushes.
Source: Video Game / Mini Ninjas -
The natives of The Twelve Kingdoms seem almost indistinguishable from humans of Earth stock, but in fact have a bizarre life cycle that includes being born from large fruit that grows on special trees.
Source: Human Aliens
Cite this Source
Stock and Fruit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fruit/stock
Fruit & Stock. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fruit/stock>.
Stock or Fruit. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fruit/stock.
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