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Edible fruit

noun

Edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh.

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"Edible fruit" Quotes from Famous Books

... and bears a large plum-shaped fruit of a dark purple colour, with dark reddish purple flesh, which is extremely acid, but which is well worth cultivation. Several species of eugenias also produce edible fruit, and there are two species of wild raspberries common to our scrubs. There are the native citrus fruits I referred to in an earlier part of this paper, as well as several other less well-known fruits that ...

— Fruits of Queensland • Albert Benson

... form, the fruit being a mere afterthought. But the effect of the broad pale green leaves, even when frayed and ragged at the edges in and among the dark entanglement of the jungle is so fine that the absence of edible fruit ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... had discovered a tree, the branches of which the Indians of South America employ for making their bows. It was the crejimba, of the palm family, which does not bear edible fruit. Long straight branches were cut, the leaves stripped off; it was shaped, stronger in the middle, more slender at the extremities, and nothing remained to be done but to find a plant fit to make the bow-string. This was the ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

... but one striking variety prefers to attract bees, and the larger insects for cross-fertilization, and it has therefore assumed brilliant crimson petals of a broadly expanded sort, instead of bearing a succulent edible fruit, This is the highly ornamental Pyrus Japonica, which may so often be seen trained on the ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... Pastoral": 'Apple-tree' — an indigenous Australian tree, so called from a supposed resemblance to the English apple-tree, but bearing no edible fruit. ...

— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens