English > edible fruit: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh. |
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| Parts | peel, skin | The rind of a fruit or vegetable |
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| Narrower | Barbados gooseberry, blade apple | small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies |
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| ackee, akee | Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds |
| anchovy pear, river pear | West Indian fruit resembling the mango |
| apple | fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh |
| apricot | downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach |
| avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate | A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed |
| banana | elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh |
| berry | Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits |
| breadfruit | A large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread |
| canistel, eggfruit | ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies |
| carambola, star fruit | Deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit |
| carissa plum, natal plum | edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant |
| ceriman, monstera | Tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor |
| cherry | A red fruit with a single hard stone |
| citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit | Any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp |
| cling, clingstone | fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit |
| cocoa plum, coco plum, icaco | Plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves |
| custard apple | The fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp |
| date | Sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed |
| dried fruit | fruit preserved by drying |
| durian | huge fruit native to southeastern Asia 'smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven' |
| elderberry | berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies |
| feijoa, pineapple guava | dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh |
| fig | fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried |
| freestone | fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit |
| garambulla | small berrylike fruit |
| genip, Spanish lime | round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp |
| genipap, genipap fruit | A succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind |
| grape | Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins |
| guava | Tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp |
| hog plum, wild plum | Fruit of the wild plum of southern United States |
| hog plum, yellow mombin | yellow oval tropical fruit |
| jaboticaba | tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil |
| jackfruit, jak, jack | immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit |
| jujube, Chinese date, Chinese jujube | dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees |
| kai apple | South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots |
| ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla | maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves |
| kiwi, kiwi fruit, Chinese gooseberry | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh |
| lanseh, lansa, lansat, lanset | East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit |
| litchi, litchi nut, litchee, lichi, leechee, lichee, lychee | Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed |
| longanberry, dragon's eye | Asian fruit similar to litchi |
| loquat, Japanese plum | yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh |
| mamey, mammee, mammee apple | globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh |
| mango | large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed |
| mangosteen | Two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples |
| marang | Tropical fruit from the Philippines having a mass of small seeds embedded in sweetish white pulp |
| medlar | Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves |
| medlar | A South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste |
| melon | Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh |
| mombin | purplish tropical fruit |
| nectarine | A variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin |
| papaw, pawpaw | fruit with yellow flesh |
| papaya | large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh |
| passion fruit | egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines |
| peach | downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh |
| pear | Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties |
| pineapple, ananas | large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves |
| pitahaya | Highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice |
| plum | Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit |
| plumcot | hybrid between plum and apricot |
| pomegranate | large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough / tough brownish-red rind |
| prickly pear | round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti |
| pulasan, pulassan | fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter |
| quandong, quandang, quantong, native peach | Red Australian fruit |
| quince | aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves |
| rambutan, rambotan | pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines |
| rose apple | fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections |
| sapodilla, sapodilla plum, sapota | Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp |
| sapote, mammee, marmalade plum | brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet |
| sorb, sorb apple | acid gritty-textured fruit |
| sour gourd | acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds |
| sour gourd, monkey bread | African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp |
| tamarind, tamarindo | large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys |
| tangelo, ugli, ugli fruit | large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin |
| windfall | fruit that has fallen from the tree |
| Broader | fruit | The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
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| produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck | Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market |
| Spanish | fruta |
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| Catalan | fruita |
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