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Plentiful :: Plentiful (a.) Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.

Epiphylospermous :: Epiphylospermous (a.) Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns..

Pomona :: Pomona (n.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.

Frutage :: Frutage (n.) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.

Fructify :: Fructify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth..

Hawthorn :: Hawthorn (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed..

Medlar :: Medlar (n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay..

Wilding :: Wilding (n.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant..

Trumpetwood :: Trumpetwood (n.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree..

Pemmican :: Pemmican (n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration..

Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain..

Skin :: Skin (n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

Greengrocer :: Greengrocer (n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

Hop :: Hop (n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.

Gymnocarpous :: Gymnocarpous (a.) Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth..

Orthospermous :: Orthospermous (a.) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous..

Xylocarpous :: Xylocarpous (a.) Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.

Dextrose :: Dextrose (n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice..

Fruitestere :: Fruitestere (n.) A fruiteress.

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

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