Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Many Different Fruits!

APPLE-the fleshy usually rounded red, yellow, or green pome (fleshy with five seeds) fruit of a usually cultivated tree
APRICOT-the oval orange-colored fruit of a temperate-zone tree resembling the plum and peach in flavor
AVOCADO- a pulpy green to purple skinned fruit with a nutty flavor. It can be of various tropical American trees.
BREADFRUIT-a round, starchy usually seedless fruit that resembles bread in color and texture when baked
BANANA-an elongated (to grow in length) usually tapering (to diminish gradually) tropical fruit with soft pulpy flesh enclosed in an usually soft yellow rind
BLACKBERRY- the usually black or dark purple juicy but seedy edible aggregate (formed by the collection of units or particles) fruit of various brambles
CURRANT-the acid edible fruit of various shrubs
BLUEBERRY-the edible blue or blackish berry of any of several North American plants
CHERIMOYA-a round oblong (deviating form by elongation) or heart-shaped fruit with a pitted pale green rind that is borne by a widely cultivated tropical American tree
CHERRY-pale yellow to deep red or blackish smooth-skinned drupes (one-seeded) enclosing a smooth seed
COCONUT-the drupaceous (bearing drupes) fruit of the coconut palm whose outer fibrous (containing, consisting of, or resembling fiber) husk yields coir (a stiff, course fiber) and whose nut contains thick edible meat and coconut milk
CUSTARD APPLE-any of several chiefly tropical American soft-fleshed edible fruits
DURIAN- a large oval tasty but foul-smelling fruit with a prickly rind
FIG-an oblong or pear-shaped syconium fruit of a tree
GRAPEFRUIT- a large citrus fruit with a bitter yellow rind and inner skin and a highly flavored somewhat acid juicy pulp
GRAPE-: a smooth-skinned juicy greenish-white to deep red or purple berry eaten dried or fresh as a fruit or fermented to produce
GUAVA-roundish pear-shaped sweet acid yellow or pink fruit
KIWIFRUIT- the edible fruit of a Chinese gooseberry having a fuzzy brown skin and slightly acidic typically green flesh
LEMON-an acid fruit that is botanically a many-seeded pale yellow oblong berry produced by a small thorny citrus tree
MANDARIN-yellow to reddish-orange loose-rinded fruits
MANGO-a tropical usually large ovoid (egg shape) or oblong fruit with a firm yellowish-red skin, hard central stone, and juicy aromatic pulp
NECTARINE- a peach with a smooth-skinned fruit
ORANGE-: a globose berry with a yellowish to reddish-orange rind and a sweet edible pulp
PAPAYA- an oblong to globose yellow edible fruit with numerous black seeds in a central cavity
PEACH- a single-seeded drupe with a hard central stone, a pulpy white or yellow flesh, and a thin fuzzy skin
PEAR- a pome fruit of a tree that typically has a pale green or brownish skin, a firm juicy flesh, and an oblong shape in which a broad base end tapers upward to a narrow stem end
PERSIMMON- the usually orange several-seeded globular berry that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely astringent (sourish and puckery) when unripe
PINEAPPLE- the large edible fruit that consists of the sweet succulent fleshy inflorescence ( the mode of development and arrangement of flowers)
PLUM-globular (shaped like a globe) oval smooth-skinned edible fruits that are drupes with oblong seeds
STRAWBERRY- the juicy edible usually red fruit of any of several low-growing temperate herbs
UGLI FRUIT (awesome!!)- It is very ugly. A huge great lump of a citrus fruit that is apparently a hybrid cross of grapefruit, orange and tangerine. Jamaican tangelo is the kinder, but less memorable name.
WATERMELON- large oblong or roundish fruit with a hard green or white rind often striped or variegated (having discrete markings of different colors. Sweet watery pink, yellowish, or red pulp, and usually many seeds


There were some fruits I didn't know before. I got some fruits here. I got the definitions here.
If there's a fruit YOU want the world to know about, write it in comments.


-P I N K Y

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