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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. pear
    Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit
  4. achene
    small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
  5. acorn
    a nut that comes from an oak tree
  6. berry
    a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
  7. blue fig
    Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
  8. buckthorn berry
    fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
  9. buffalo nut
    shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
  10. capitulum
    a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
  11. chokecherry
    a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds
  12. cubeb
    tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
  13. drupe
    fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond
  14. ear
    the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
  15. edible fruit
    edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
  16. false fruit
    a fleshy fruit having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
  17. fruitlet
    a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit
  18. gourd
    any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  19. grapefruit
    citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp
  20. hagberry
    small cherry much liked by birds
  21. juniper berry
    berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
  22. kumquat
    a small oval citrus fruit with a thin sweet rind
  23. lemon
    yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
  24. lime
    the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
  25. mandarin
    a high public official of imperial China
  26. 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
  27. marasca
    Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
  28. multiple fruit
    fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
  29. oil nut
    oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
Created on Fri Mar 19 13:33:34 EDT 2010

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