edible fruit

/ˌɛdəbəl frut/

Other forms: edible fruits

Definitions of edible fruit

1. noun

   edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
   types:

   freestone

   fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit

   cling, clingstone

   fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit

   windfall

   fruit that has fallen from the tree

   apple

   fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

   berry

   any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves

   lansa, lansat, lanseh, lanset

   East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit

   carambola, star fruit

   deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert

   ceriman, monstera

   tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor

   carissa plum, natal plum

   edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant

   citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit

   any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions

   tangelo, ugli, ugli fruit

   large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin

   apricot

   a yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

   peach

   downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

   nectarine

   a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin

   pitahaya, pitaya

   highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach

   plum

   any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

   dried fruit

   fruit preserved by drying

   fig

   fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

   ananas, pineapple

   large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

   anchovy pear, river pear

   West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled

   banana

   elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

   passion fruit

   egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks

   breadfruit

   a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts

   jack, jackfruit, jak

   immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted

   canistel, eggfruit

   ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies

   melon

   any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh

   cherry

   a red fruit with a single hard stone

   coco plum, cocoa plum, icaco

   plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American

   grape

   any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters

   custard apple

   the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp

   papaw, pawpaw

   fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples

   papaya

   large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

   kai apple

   South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves

   ketembilla, kitambilla, kitembilla

   maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves

   ackee, akee

   red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe

   durian

   huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts

   feijoa, pineapple guava

   dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves

   Spanish lime, genip

   round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes

   genipap, genipap fruit

   a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind

   Chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi fruit

   fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

   Japanese plum, loquat

   yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies

   mangosteen

   two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples

   mango

   large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed

   sapodilla, sapodilla plum, sapota

   tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp

   mammee, marmalade plum, sapote

   brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

   tamarind, tamarindo

   large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys

   aguacate, alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear

   a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed

   date

   sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

   elderberry

   berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies

   guava

   tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies

   mombin

   purplish tropical fruit

   hog plum, yellow mombin

   yellow oval tropical fruit

   hog plum, wild plum

   fruit of the wild plum of southern United States

   jaboticaba

   tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil

   Chinese date, Chinese jujube, jujube

   dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees

   leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee

   Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried

   dragon's eye, longanberry

   Asian fruit similar to litchi

   mamey, mammee, mammee apple

   globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh

   marang

   tropical fruit from the Philippines having a mass of small seeds embedded in sweetish white pulp

   medlar

   crabapple-like fruit used for preserves

   medlar

   a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste

   pear

   sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

   plumcot

   hybrid between plum and apricot

   pomegranate

   large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind

   prickly pear

   round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti

   garambulla

   small berrylike fruit

   Barbados gooseberry, blade apple

   small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies

   native peach, quandang, quandong, quantong

   red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam

   quince

   aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves

   rambotan, rambutan

   pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines

   pulasan, pulassan

   fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter

   rose apple

   fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections

   sorb, sorb apple

   acid gritty-textured fruit

   sour gourd

   acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds

   monkey bread, sour gourd

   African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp

   crab apple, crabapple

   small sour apple; suitable for preserving

   dessert apple, eating apple

   an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

   cooking apple

   an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc

   European blueberry, bilberry, whortleberry

   blue-black berries similar to American blueberries

   huckleberry

   blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States

   blueberry

   sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants

   boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen

   spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

   cranberry

   very tart red berry used for sauce or juice

   cowberry, lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry

   tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller

   currant

   any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams

   blackberry

   large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus

   boysenberry

   a large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries

   dewberry

   blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes

   loganberry

   large red variety of the dewberry

   raspberry

   red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries

   juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry

   edible purple or red berries

   strawberry

   sweet fleshy red fruit

   hackberry, sugarberry

   small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States

   persimmon

   orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

   West Indian cherry, acerola, barbados cherry, surinam cherry

   acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C

   orange

   round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

   mandarin, mandarin orange

   a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

   kumquat

   small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp

   lemon

   yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh

   lime

   the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees

   grapefruit

   large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half

   pomelo, shaddock

   large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp

   citrange

   more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade

   citron

   large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved

   damson, damson plum

   dark purple plum of the damson tree

   greengage, greengage plum

   sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum

   beach plum

   small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies

   sloe

   small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush

   Victoria plum

   a large red plum served as dessert

   dried apricot

   apricots preserved by drying

   prune

   dried plum

   raisin

   dried grape

   granadilla

   the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers

   sweet calabash

   apple-sized passion fruit of the West Indies

   bell apple, sweet cup, water lemon, yellow granadilla

   the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle

   melon ball

   a bite of melon cut as a sphere

   muskmelon, sweet melon

   the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers

   watermelon

   large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp

   black cherry, sweet cherry

   any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh

   Mexican black cherry, capulin

   Mexican black cherry

   sour cherry

   acid cherries used for pies and preserves

   bullace grape, muscadine

   dull-purple grape of southern United States

   slipskin grape

   a grape whose skin slips readily from the pulp

   vinifera grape

   grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe

   cherimolla, cherimoya

   large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples

   guanabana, soursop

   large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples

   Jamaica apple, bullock's heart

   large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp

   annon, sugar apple, sweetsop

   sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds

   ilama

   whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States

   pond apple

   ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peach-colored flesh; related to custard apples

   mulberry

   sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus

   bosc

   greenish-yellow pear

   anjou

   a pear with firm flesh and a green skin

   bartlett, bartlett pear

   juicy yellow pear

   seckel, seckel pear

   small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear

   type of:

   garden truck, green goods, green groceries, produce

   fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

   fruit

   the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant