English to English
noun
- fruit that has fallen from the tree
source: WordNet 3.0
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
The demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.
source: Webster 1913