Meanings
plural superfruits
- A superfood that is a fruit; any fruit supposed to confer remarkable health benefits.
Goji berries are often marketed as a superfruit.
3 more examples
This lemon, grown by Robert Jennings of Downey, California, weighs five pounds and is eight inches tall and twenty-three inches around. Genetic engineering could produce such superfruits consistently.
1986, Walter G. Oleksy, Miracles of Genetics, Childrens Press, →ISBN, page 17Among his picks: Superfruits. With summer long gone, it may not seem a good time to be pitching fruit. But three of Pratt's new power foods are fruits that are currendy in season — pomegranates, kiwis and apples.
2005, Newsweek, Newsweek, page 79Pomegranates, those cheerful round red fruits often seen in wintertime fruit bowls, have quickly gained a reputation as superfruits, so thoroughly packed are they with antioxidants, especially deep red anthocyanins.
2009, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 410
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Italic*super
- Latinsuper
- Latinsuper-
- Englishsuper-
- Latinfrūctus
- Old Frenchfruit
- Middle Englishfruyt
- Englishfruit
- Englishsuperfruit
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 超級水果 /超级水果
- 超級水果 /超级水果 (chāojí shuǐguǒ)superfood that is a fruit
Finnish superhedelmä
- superhedelmäsuperfood that is a fruit
Polish superowoc
- superowocsuperfood that is a fruit
Spanish superfruta
- superfrutasuperfood that is a fruit
Cite this entry
superfruit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superfruit
“superfruit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superfruit. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “superfruit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superfruit.
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