Fruits

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Fruits
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Banana
A tree (Musa sapientum) cultivated largely in
tropical and subtropical climates, especially in
the islands of the Atlantic and Pacific it grows
to a height of 20 feet, and has its stem marked
with purple spots and streaks.
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a
banana. - Groucho Marx
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Orange
1. The fruit of a tree, a large globose
many-celled berry (HESPERIDIUM) with sub-acid
juicy pulp, enclosed in a tough rind externally
of a bright reddish yellow ( orange) colour.
2. The reddish-yellow colour of the orange one
of the so-called seven colours of the spectrum,
occupying the region between red and yellow.
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree
but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K.
Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)
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Apple
1.  The round firm fleshy fruit of a Rosaceous
tree (Pyrus Malus) found wild, as the crab-apple,
in Europe and the Caucasus, and cultivated in
innumerable varieties all over the two temperate
zones.
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a
rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the
apple, I'll buy you a new car. -Harvey Diamond
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Grapes
1. One of the berries, growing in clusters on a
vine, and from the juice of which wine is made.
Also grape of wine. Chiefly pl. in poetry often
sing., as quasi-collect.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around
it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch
of grapes as if it had nothing else in the
universe to do. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and
astronomer (1564-1642)
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Tomato
The glossy fleshy fruit of a solanaceous plant
(Solanum Lycopersicum or Lycopersicum
esculentum), a native of tropical America, now
cultivated as a garden vegetable in temperate as
well as tropical lands. It varies when ripe from
red to yellow in colour, and greatly in size and
shape, the common form being irregularly
spheroidal, while two smaller forms, considered
by some as species, are named from their shape,
L. cerasiforme, the cherry tomato, and L.
pyriforme, the pear-shaped tomato. Formerly
called love-apple, from supposed aphrodisiac
qualities. Also the plant, an annual with a weak
trailing or climbing stem, irregularly pinnate
leaves, and yellow flowers resembling those of
the potato.
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Strawberry
The fruit (popularly so called) of any species
of the genus Fragaria, a soft bag-shaped
receptacle, of a characteristic colour (scarlet
to yellowish), full of juicy acid pulp, and
dotted over with small yellow seed-like achenes.
It is eaten alone or crushed with sugar and cream
(or wine). The wild or wood strawberry is smaller
than the cultivated kinds.
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Watermelon
A kind of gourd, Citrullus vulgaris (formerly
Cucumis Citrullus). (Applied both to the plant
and its fruit.)
Here I slipped out at the side door into the
water-melon patch. - S. A. O'FERRALL Ramble Amer.
298 (1832)
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Pineapple
1. a. The juicy edible fruit of the Ananas,
Ananassa sativa, a large collective fruit
developed from a conical spike of flowers, and
surmounted by a crown of small leaves so called
from its resemblance to a pine-cone
b. A bomb a hand grenade or light trench mortar.
slang.
By pineapple I mean bomb, said Jiggs
gravely. It's part of the racketeer's
equipment. by E. WALLACE When Gangs came to
London xv. 118 (1932)
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Grapefruit
The globular fruit of Citrus paradisi, having a
yellow skin and pale yellow (occas. pink), juicy,
acid pulp..
Have a drink with me. Gin-and-orange?..Thanks
very much, I'll have a grapefruit juice if you
don't mind. by J. BRAINE Vodi vii. 108 (1959)
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Lemon
An ovate fruit with a pale yellow rind, and an
acid juice. Largely used for making a beverage
and for flavouring. The juice yields citric acid
the rind yields oil or essence of lemons, used in
cookery and perfumery.
The scurvy has hardly been known in our navy
since limes and lemons were ordered by law to be
carried by all vessels sailing to foreign parts.-
by YEATS Nat. Hist. Comm. 180 (1870)
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Mango
The fruit of Mangifera indica (family
Anacardiaceæ), a tree extensively cultivated in
India and other tropical countries it is a
fleshy drupe, with more or less of a turpentine
flavour the best kinds are highly esteemed for
eating ripe the green fruit is used for pickles
and conserves.
Another most excellent Fruit they have, called a
Mango. by TERRY Voy. E. India 96 (1665)
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Litchi (lychee)
The fruit of an evergreen tree, Litchi chinensis,
of the family Sapindaceæ, native to southern
China but widely cultivated in tropical countries
elsewhere the fruit is a large berry with a
rough, brown skin and sweet, white flesh, which
is eaten fresh or preserved.
The litchi has arrived in much larger quantities
lately and been much appreciated. by Nature 14
May 866/2 (1938)
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Cherry
A well-known stone-fruit the pulpy drupe of
certain species (or a sub-genus) of Prunus
(family Rosaceæ). When used without qualification
it usually means the fruit of the cultivated tree
(Prunus Cerasus or Cerasus vulgaris) of this,
two forms are now also found wild in Britain the
more distinct of these, the common Wild Cherry or
Gean, is sometimes considered a separate species
No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season
of Christmas! by LONGFELLOW M. Standish IX. 48
(1858)
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