edible fruit

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edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh garden truck, green goods, green groceries, produce - fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market freestone - fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit cling, clingstone - fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit peel, skin - the rind of a fruit or vegetable windfall - fruit that has fallen from the tree apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves lansa, lansat, lanseh, lanset - East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit star fruit, carambola - deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert ceriman, monstera - tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor carissa plum, natal plum - edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions ugli, ugli fruit, tangelo - large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin apricot - downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach peach - downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh nectarine - a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin pitahaya - highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach plum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit dried fruit - fruit preserved by drying fig - fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried ananas, pineapple - large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated river pear, anchovy pear - West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled banana - elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh passion fruit - egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks breadfruit - a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts jak, jackfruit, jack - immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted eggfruit, canistel - ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies melon - any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone coco plum, cocoa plum, icaco - plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American grape - any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters custard apple - the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp papaw, pawpaw - fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples papaya - large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh kai apple - South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves ketembilla, kitambilla, kitembilla - maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves ackee, akee - red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe durian - huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts pineapple guava, feijoa - dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves genip, Spanish lime - round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes