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soft fruit
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soft fruit
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Brit any of various types of small edible stoneless fruit, such as strawberries, raspberries, and currants, borne mainly on low-growing plants or bushes

soft fruit - Fruit that grows on bushes, such as berries, strawberries and currants, as contrasted with top fruit.
See also related terms for strawberries.
Translations
soft fruit n (Brit) → frutti mpl di bosco


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Soft fruits can be eaten just like that or made into jams, or used in deserts or even preserved.
Dumont and her team suggest that the strong bite hints that either the bats are eating hard fruits in their habitat without anyone knowing about it or, that their ability to eat hard fruits is a characteristic that they evolved long ago during a time period when soft fruits were not as plentiful.
PICK YOUR OWN Brocksbushes soft fruits are available from June to October each year.
 
 
 
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