fleshy fruit

fleshy fruit
noun Date: 1829 a fruit (as a berry, drupe, or pome) consisting largely of soft succulent tissue

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  • fleshy fruit — сочный фрукт fruit chocolate шоколад с фруктами to live on fruit питаться фруктами to tin fruit консервировать фрукты to do up fruit консервировать фрукты crystallized fruit засахаренные фрукты …   English-Russian travelling dictionary

  • fleshy fruit — noun : a fruit consisting largely of soft succulent tissue (as a berry, drupe, or pome) see fruit illustration …   Useful english dictionary

  • fleshy — fleshy, fleshly The distinction in current use is much the same as between earthy and earthly. Fleshy relates to flesh in its physical sense and means primarily ‘plump, fat’ (e.g. fleshy hands / fleshy fruit), whereas fleshly relates to the… …   Modern English usage

  • Fruit — For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). Several culinary fruits …   Wikipedia

  • fruit farming — Introduction       growing of fruit crops, including nuts, primarily for use as human food.       The subject of fruit and nut production deals with intensive culture of perennial plants, the fruits of which have economic significance (a nut is a …   Universalium

  • Fleshy fruits — Fruit Fruit, n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See {Brook}, v. t., and cf. {Fructify}, {Frugal}.] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fruit — Fruit, n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See {Brook}, v. t., and cf. {Fructify}, {Frugal}.] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fruit bat — Fruit Fruit, n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See {Brook}, v. t., and cf. {Fructify}, {Frugal}.] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fruit bud — Fruit Fruit, n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See {Brook}, v. t., and cf. {Fructify}, {Frugal}.] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fruit dot — Fruit Fruit, n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See {Brook}, v. t., and cf. {Fructify}, {Frugal}.] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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