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Fruits

A list of exotic fruits
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  1. orange
    any citrus tree bearing oranges
  2. apple
    a tree widely cultivated for its firm rounded edible fruits
  3. achene
    small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
  4. acorn
    a nut that comes from an oak tree
  5. berry
    a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
  6. blue fig
    Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
  7. buckthorn berry
    fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
  8. buffalo nut
    shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
  9. capitulum
    a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
  10. chokecherry
    a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds
  11. cubeb
    tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
  12. drupe
    fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond
  13. ear
    the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
  14. edible fruit
    edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
  15. false fruit
    a fleshy fruit having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
  16. fruitlet
    a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit
  17. gourd
    any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  18. grapefruit
    citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp
  19. hagberry
    small cherry much liked by birds
  20. juniper berry
    berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
  21. kumquat
    a small oval citrus fruit with a thin sweet rind
  22. lemon
    yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
  23. lime
    the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
  24. mandarin
    a high public official of imperial China
  25. mandarin orange
    shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
  26. marasca
    Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
  27. multiple fruit
    fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
  28. oil nut
    oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
  29. olive
    small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree
  30. Orange
    a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean
  31. pear
    Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit
  32. pod
    the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant
  33. pome
    a fleshy fruit having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
  34. pomelo
    southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
  35. prairie gourd
    perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
  36. pyxidium
    fruit of such plants as the plantain
  37. quandong
    Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed
  38. quince
    small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit
  39. rosehip
    the fruit of a rose plant
  40. rowanberry
    decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree
  41. schizocarp
    a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed
  42. seed
    small, hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow
  43. seedpod
    a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
  44. shaddock
    southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
  45. spike
    a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
  46. stone fruit
    fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond
  47. syncarp
    fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
  48. wild cherry
    an uncultivated cherry tree
  49. yellow berry
    fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
Created on Thu Mar 18 14:53:19 EDT 2010 (updated Thu Mar 18 14:54:27 EDT 2010)

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