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Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

Perianth :: Perianth (n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

Conserve :: Conserve (v. t.) To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of..

Avocado :: Avocado (n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter..

Cornucopia :: Cornucopia (n.) The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance..

Stroboscope :: Strobiline (a.) Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits..

Fructose :: Fructose (n.) Fruit sugar; levulose.

Sloe :: Sloe (n.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself..

Putamen :: Putamen (n.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

Foody :: Foody (a.) Eatable; fruitful.

Peach :: Peach (n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible..

Lid :: Lid (n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts..

Childing :: Childing (v. i.) Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.

Shed :: Shed (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope..

Candied :: Candied (a.) Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits..

Wantless :: Wantless (a.) Having no want; abundant; fruitful.

Granadilla :: Granadilla (n.) The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices..

Graft :: Graft (n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit..

Bicuspidate :: Bicuspidate (a.) Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc..

Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips..

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