fruit bat megabat | large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit |
harpy harpy bat tube-nosed bat tube-nosed fruit bat | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes |
fruit fly pomace fly | any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits |
Mediterranean fruit fly medfly Ceratitis capitata | small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit |
fruit machine | a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials, certain combinations win money for the player |
yield fruit | an amount of a product |
growing pains | problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages) |
forbidden fruit | originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality) |
fruit of the poisonous tree | a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used |
fruit | the consequence of some effort or action, he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies |
growing pains | emotional distress arising during adolescence |
fruit cocktail | a mixture of sliced or diced fruits |
candied fruit succade crystallized fruit | fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals |
compote fruit compote | dessert of stewed or baked fruit |
fruit custard | a custard containing fruit |
fruit bar | cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars |
edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
carambola star fruit | deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit, used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert |
citrus citrus fruit citrous fruit | any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp, grown in warm regions |
tangelo ugli ugli fruit | large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin |
dried fruit | fruit preserved by drying |
passion fruit | egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines, used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks |
genipap genipap fruit | a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind |
kiwi kiwi fruit Chinese gooseberry | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh |
fruit salad | salad composed of fruits |
fruit juice fruit crush | drink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit |
fruit drink ade | a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice |
fruit punch | a punch made of fruit juices mixed with water or soda water (with or without alcohol) |
fruit grower | someone who grows fruit commercially |
samara key fruit key | a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple |
banana passion fruit Passiflora mollissima | cultivated for fruit |
fruit tree | tree bearing edible fruit |
genipap fruit jagua marmalade box Genipa Americana | tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit |
tangelo tangelo tree ugli fruit Citrus tangelo | hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange, cultivated especially in Florida |
fruit | the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
aggregate fruit multiple fruit syncarp | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple |
simple fruit bacca | an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape, tomato, cranberry |
drupe stone fruit | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube |
pome false fruit | a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part |
accessory fruit pseudocarp | fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary, as apple or strawberry |
growing | (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state |
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
growing pains | pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth |
fructose fruit sugar levulose laevulose | a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits |
growing season | the season during which a crop grows best |
fruit | bear fruit, the trees fruited early this year |
fruit | cause to bear fruit |
carpophagous fruit-eating(a) | feeding on fruit |
low-growing flat-growing ground-hugging | of plants that grow relatively low to the ground |
aggressive fast-growing(a) strong-growing | tending to spread quickly, an aggressive tumor |