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Fruits

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

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