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Stone fruit   /stoʊn frut/   Listen
Stone fruit

noun
1.
Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube.  Synonym: drupe.






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"Stone fruit" Quotes from Famous Books



... hard, and contains a gummy milk, and the pulpy part is almost as delicious as that of the Jabuti-puhe. The Cuma tree is of moderate height, and grows rather plentifully in the more elevated and drier situations. A third kind is the Pama, which is a stone fruit, similar in colour and appearance to the cherry but of oblong shape. The tree is one of the loftiest in the forest, and has never, I believe, been selected for cultivation. To get at the fruit the natives are obliged to climb to the height of about a hundred feet, ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates



Words linked to "Stone fruit" :   cherry, drupelet, fruit, plum, jujube, olive, Chinese jujube, almond, elderberry, peach, Chinese date



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