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  1. date
    the specified day of the month
  2. acerola
    tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries
  3. aguacate
    a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
  4. apple
    a tree widely cultivated for its firm rounded edible fruits
  5. banana
    a treelike herb bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
  6. almond
    small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa
  7. amaranth
    any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food
  8. ananas
    large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
  9. anchovy pear
    West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango
  10. annon
    sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds
  11. apricot
    a yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
  12. avocado
    a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin
  13. beach plum
    seacoast shrub of northeastern North America having showy white blossoms and edible purple fruit
  14. bell apple
    the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle
  15. bilberry
    erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries
  16. bitter orange
    any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
  17. blackberry
    bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
  18. black-eyed pea
    sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
  19. black walnut
    North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
  20. blueberry
    any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
  21. blue fig
    Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
  22. breadfruit
    native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
  23. buckeye
    tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
  24. buffalo nut
    shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
  25. calabash
    Old World climbing plant with bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
  26. cantaloupe
    muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
  27. casaba
    melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh
  28. cherimoya
    small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit
  29. coconut
    large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
  30. corn
    tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
  31. cowpea
    sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
  32. dragon's eye
    Asian fruit similar to litchi
  33. drupe
    fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond
  34. edible fruit
    edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
  35. eggfruit
    ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
  36. fig
    Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
  37. gourd
    any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  38. grain
    a cereal grass
  39. grape
    any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
  40. grapefruit
    citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp
  41. greengage
    sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum
  42. groundnut
    a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
  43. guava
    small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
  44. jackfruit
    East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
  45. kiwi
    fuzzy brown fruit with tart green flesh
  46. kumquat
    a small oval citrus fruit with a thin sweet rind
  47. lemon
    yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
  48. lime
    the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
  49. loquat
    evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
  50. mango
    large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
  51. mangosteen
    East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit
  52. melon
    any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
  53. okra
    a flowering plant with tall stalks and edible green seed pods used in cooking
  54. palm nut
    seed of any oil palm
  55. papaya
    a tropical American tree that produces a yellow, melon-like fruit
  56. peach
    downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
  57. pea
    a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
  58. peanut
    widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
  59. pear
    Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit
  60. persimmon
    any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
  61. pineapple
    a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
  62. plum
    any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
  63. pod
    the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant
  64. pomegranate
    shrub or small tree having large red many-seeded fruit
  65. pomelo
    southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
  66. pumpkin seed
    the edible seed of a pumpkin
  67. rambotan
    Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit
  68. shaddock
    southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
  69. soya bean
    the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known
  70. soybean
    the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known
  71. star fruit
    deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit
Created on Tue May 15 14:16:25 EDT 2012 (updated Wed May 16 05:57:37 EDT 2012)

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