The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MULBERRY
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More clues leading to the result MULBERRY
- Happy about bulb — not the first — becoming tree
- Fruit: happy to consume the third of four pounds!
- Fruity thing at heart, Trump messed with Beryl
- Fruit essential to French invasion?
- Bush bud topped – happy about that?
- Drunk to devour onion where starter denied in fruit
- Unusually blue pair of rooks nested in my bush
- Upper-class learner beginning to bash into jolly tree
- Fruit which when drunk could make me blurry
- Happy about university getting pounds — it should bear fruit
Buddy explains!

The straight part
We know that "Fruit" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fruit = mulberry.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does MULBERRY mean?
MULBERRY noun- Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.
- The fruit of this tree.
- A dark purple colour tinted with red.
- Of a dark purple color tinted with red.