单词 | stone fruit |
释义 | stone fruit (once / 135855 pages) n WORD FAMILY stone fruit: stone fruits USAGE EXAMPLESIt radiates ripe, stone fruit – plums and apricots – and Christmas spice. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) “Apricots and almonds go well together,” he says, noting that they are both in the drupe — or stone fruit — family. Seattle Times(Nov 22, 2016) A recent salad included both fresh and dried stone fruit, citrus and a fruit vinaigrette. Los Angeles Times(Sep 26, 2016) n fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube Syn|Hypo|Hyper drupe almond oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree peachdowny juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh plumany of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit cherrya red fruit with a single hard stone elderberryberrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies Chinese date, Chinese jujube, jujubedark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees oliveone-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish drupeleta small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe blackberrylarge sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus raspberryred or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries Jordan almondan almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored damson, damson plumdark purple plum of the damson tree greengage, greengage plumsweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum beach plumsmall dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies sloesmall sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush Victoria pluma large red plum served as dessert black cherry, sweet cherryany of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh Mexican black cherry, capulinMexican black cherry sour cherryacid cherries used for pies and preserves black olive, ripe oliveolives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil green oliveolives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento acinusone of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry fruit the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
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