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Fruit

botanical term for the mature ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers. For foods commonly known as fruit, use Q3314483
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Fruit, in broad terms, is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas.

Culinary fruits

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Generally

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  • Here mulberries bleed; the grape’s lithe cluster bends;
    And blue the rush-bound cucumber depends.
  • Whig and whey whilst thou lust,
       And bramble-berries,
    Pie-lid and pastry-crust,
       Pears, plums, and cherries.
    • Anonymous, "Phillida Flouts Me; or, The Country Lovers Complaint", in in John Watts' Musical Miscellany, vol. 2 (1729)
  • The barberry and currant must escape
    Though her small clusters imitate the grape.
  • Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
    • Epictetus, Discourses, What Philosophy Promises, Ch. XV. George Long's translation (London: George Bell and Sons, 1890)
  • Plant Trees you may, and see them shoot
    Up with your Children, to be serv’d
    To your clean Boards, and the fair’st Fruit
         To be preserv’d:
    And learn to use their several Gums;
    ’Tis innocence in the sweet blood
    Of Cherry, Apricocks and Plums
         To be imbru’d.
    • Sir Richard Fanshawe, "An Ode, upon occasion of His Majesties Proclamation in the Year 1630. Commanding the Gentry to reside upon their estates in the Countrey", in The Faithful Shepherdess (1664)
  • And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
  • Eve, with her basket, was
    Deep in the bells and grass
    Wading in bells and grass
    Up to her knees,
    Picking a dish of sweet
    Berries and plums to eat,
    Down in the bells and grass
    Under the trees.
  • Silver-pink peach, venetian green glass of medlars and sorb-apples.
  • He it is Who produceth gardens trellised and untrellised, and the date-palm, and crops of divers flavour, and the olive and the pomegranate, like and unlike. Eat ye of the fruit thereof when it fruiteth, and pay the due thereof upon the harvest day, and be not prodigal.
  • Ye shall know them by their fruits.
    Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
  • Each tree
    Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye
    Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite
    To pluck and eat.
  • But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
    Indeed is too mellow for me.
  • Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred,
    Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays
    Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach.
  • I lose the sunlight, lovely above all else;
    Bright stars I loved the next, and the moon’s face,
    Ripe gourds, and fruit of apple-tree and pear.
    • Praxilla, Fragment quoted by Zenobius, Proverbs, 4, 21; translated by T. F. Higham, Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 465
  • May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst.
  • The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
    And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
    Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
  • My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
  • Let other lands, exulting, glean
    The apple from the pine,
    The orange from its glossy green,
    The cluster from the vine.

Specific types

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Peach

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  • A little peach in an orchard grew,—
    A little peach of emerald hue;
    Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew
    It grew.
    • Eugene Field, "The Little Peach", in The Argonaut, vol. 10, no. 24 (17 June 1882), p. 14
  • Why so velvety, why so voluptuous heavy?
    Why hanging with such inordinate weight?
    Why so indented?
    Why the groove?
    Why the lovely, bivalve roundnesses?
    Why the ripple down the sphere?
    Why the suggestion of incision?
  • As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
  • The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
    • James Whitcomb Riley, "The Ripest Peach", Afterwhiles (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1898), p. 71

Pear

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  • "Now, Sire," quod she, "for aught that may bityde,
    I moste haue of the peres that I see,
    Or I moote dye, so soore longeth me
    To eten of the smalle peres grene."
  • The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves
    And blossom, under heavens of happy blue.
    • Jean Ingelow, "Songs with Preludes: Wedlock", A Story of Doom, and Other Poems (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1867), p. 259
  •      A pear-tree planted nigh:
    'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
    And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
    • Alexander Pope, "January and May", l. 602 (paraphrasing Chaucer; see above), Works, vol. 3 (London: H. Lintot, 1736), p. 155

Citrus

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Sharp-tasted citrons Median climes produce,
(Bitter the rind, but generous is the juice)
  • Sharp-tasted citrons Median climes produce,
    (Bitter the rind, but generous is the juice,)
    A cordial fruit, a present antidote
    Against the direful stepdame's deadly draught.
  • Oranges and lemons,
    Say the bells of St. Clement’s.
    • "Oranges and Lemons", in I. and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd ed. (1997), pp. 337–8

Berries

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Figs

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  • Ripe figs won’t keep.

Mangoes

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  • I shall arrange a lady with breasts like mangoes.

Breadfruit

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  • Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
    Whatever they are.

See also

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