crop-dusting
spraying | the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) |
craw
crop | a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food |
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 |
| crop | the stock or handle of a whip |
| crop | the output of something in a season, the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores |
| 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 |
riding crop
hunting crop | a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates |
yield
fruit | an amount of a product |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| crop | a collection of people or things appearing together, the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas |
| fruit grower | someone who grows fruit commercially |
| crop | a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale |
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 |
crop
harvest | the yield from plants in a single growing season |
| cash crop | a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco) |
| catch crop | a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season |
| cover crop | crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure |
| field crop | a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes, cotton, hay, and grain are field crops |
| root crop | crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets, potatoes, turnips |
| 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 |