• first fruit,first-fruit

FromMiddle Englishfirste fruyt, equivalent tofirst +‎fruit.

firstfruit (pluralfirstfruits)

1. Anoffering of the first of theharvest;firstfruits.
2. The first growth, allegory for the first people to receive the message.
   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Romans11:16:

     For if thefirstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

3. Ceremony in Southern Africa, notably among the Zulu and Swazi peoples, in which the paramount chief is the first to eat from the new harvest.

• forefruit

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