fruit

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1 different kinds of fruit
2 parts of a fruit
3 buying and eating fruit
4 growing fruit
see also FOOD, COOK, VEGETABLE

1 different kinds of fruit
- the part of a plant or tree that contains seeds and that is used for food: fruit (noun U/C)
Would anybody like some fruit? ◎ Oranges, lemons and limes are all citrus fruits.
- a small soft fruit with seeds: berry
poisonous berries
- a hard dry fruit with a shell: nut
※ more on nuts NUT
- a soft round fruit with a large stone in its centre: peach
- a yellow-green fruit that tastes like a lemon: lime
- a fruit like a small sweet orange with a skin that is easy to take off: tangerine
※—† dried fruit
- fruit which has had all its water removed: dried fruit (noun U)
dried apricots/figs/dates
- a dried plum: prune
- different kinds of dried grape (often used in making cakes): raisin, sultana, currant

2 parts of a fruit
- the outer covering of a fruit: skin; the skin of a lemon or orange: peel (noun U)
a banana skin ◎ Do you like this cake? It's flavoured with lemon peel.
- to remove the skin from a fruit: peel sth
- a small seed in an apple, orange, lemon, etc: pip
- the hard centre of apples, pears, etc: core
- the large seed in certain fruits, for example plums and peaches: stone
cherry stones
- the solid part of a fruit that we eat: flesh (noun U)
- the liquid part of a fruit: juice (noun U)
fruit juice

3 buying and eating fruit
- fruit which is ready to be picked and eaten is ripe; noun (U): ripeness; to become ripe: ripen
If it isn't ripe, it won't taste very nice. ◎ They won't ripen if you put them in the fridge.
- fruit which is not ready to be eaten is unripe
- if a fruit has ripened too much, it is overripe
Make sure they're not overripe when you buy them.
- fruit which tastes as if it has a lot of sugar is sweet; opposite: sour
These gooseberries are rather sour - you'd better add some sugar.
- fruit with a lot of juice is juicy
some delicious juicy pears
- fruit which is not cooked or frozen or from a tin is fresh
fresh fruit and vegetables
- when fresh fruit is easily available, it is in season; not easily available: out of season
Apples are expensive at present - I suppose they're out of season.
- a person who sells fruit and vegetables: greengrocer; a shop that sells fruit and vegetables: greengrocer's (shop)
- you can buy fruit in a bag, packet, tin (especially AmE can) or jar
a bag of apples ◎ a half-kilo packet of frozen raspberries ◎ a tin/can of peaches ◎ a large jar of olives
※—† making juice
- to press out the juice from fruit: squeeze sth; adjective: squeezed
freshly squeezed orange juice
- an instrument for squeezing lemons or oranges: lemon-squeezer
- a machine for pressing juice from fruit: juice extractor
※—† food made with fruit
- fruit which is cut up and mixed together, usually in a sweet juice: fruit salad (noun C/U)
I think I'll have fruit salad for dessert.
- to cook fruit with a small amount of sugar and water: stew sth; adjective: stewed
stewed plums/apples/rhubarb
- different kinds of food made with fruit and pastry (= a mixture of flour, fat and water): pie, tart
apple pie and custard ◎ strawberry tarts with cream
- a transparent soft food made with fruit and water, that shakes when it is moved: jelly (AmE jello)(noun U/C)
raspberry jelly and ice cream
- a sweet substance made with fruit and sugar, which is eaten on bread: jam
plum jam

4 growing fruit
- different kinds of fruit grow on a bush, a treeplant
a gooseberry bush ◎ pear trees ◎ strawberry plants
- a piece of land where fruit trees are grown: orchard
an apple orchard
- grapes grow on a vine; the place where grapes are grown: vineyard
- a number of fruits growing together: bunch
a bunch of grapes/bananas
- to take fruit from its plant: pick sth
Don't pick them - they're not ripe yet. ◎ Let's go blackberry picking.