superfruit

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noun

A superfood that is a fruit; any fruit supposed to confer remarkable health benefits.

“Goji berries are often marketed as a superfruit.”

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounsuperfruit (plural superfruits)

plural superfruits

  1. 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 17

    Among 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 79

    Pomegranates, 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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Latinfrūctus
  8. Old Frenchfruit
  9. Middle Englishfruyt
  10. Englishfruit
  11. Englishsuperfruit

From super- + fruit.

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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
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “superfruit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superfruit.

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