edible fruit

Noun
  1. Edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh (synset 107721676)
    is a type of:
    subtypes:
    • freestone - fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit
    • cling, clingstone - fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
    • windfall - fruit that has fallen from the tree
    • apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
    • berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
    • lansa, lansat, lanseh, lanset - East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit
    • carambola, star fruit - deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert
    • ceriman, monstera - tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor
    • carissa plum, natal plum - edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant
    • citrous fruit, citrus, citrus 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
    • apricot - downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
    • peach - downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
    • nectarine - a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin
    • pitahaya - highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach
    • plum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
    • dried fruit - fruit preserved by drying
    • fig - fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
    • ananas, pineapple - large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
    • anchovy pear, river pear - West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled
    • banana - elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
    • passion fruit - egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks
    • breadfruit - a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
    • jack, jackfruit, jak - immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
    • canistel, eggfruit - ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
    • melon - any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
    • cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone
    • coco plum, cocoa plum, icaco - plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American
    • grape - any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
    • custard apple - the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp
    • papaw, pawpaw - fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
    • papaya - large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
    • kai apple - South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves
    • ketembilla, kitambilla, kitembilla - maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
    • ackee, akee - red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe
    • durian - huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts
    • feijoa, pineapple guava - dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves
    • genip, spanish lime - round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes
    • genipap, genipap fruit - a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind
    • chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi fruit - fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
    • japanese plum, loquat - yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
    • mangosteen - two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples
    • mango - large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed
    • sapodilla, sapodilla plum, sapota - tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp
    • mammee, marmalade plum, sapote - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
    • 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
    • aguacate, alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear - a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
    • date - sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
    • elderberry - berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
    • guava - tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies
    • mombin - purplish tropical fruit
    • hog plum, yellow mombin - yellow oval tropical fruit
    • hog plum, wild plum - fruit of the wild plum of southern United States
    • jaboticaba - tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil
    • chinese date, chinese jujube, jujube - dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
    • leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
    • dragon's eye, longanberry - Asian fruit similar to litchi
    • mamey, mammee, mammee apple - globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh
    • 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
    • pear - sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
    • plumcot - hybrid between plum and apricot
    • pomegranate - large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
    • prickly pear - round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
    • garambulla - small berrylike fruit
    • barbados gooseberry, blade apple - small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
    • native peach, quandang, quandong, quantong - red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam
    • quince - aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves
    • rambotan, rambutan - pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines
    • pulasan, pulassan - fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter
    • rose apple - fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections
    • sorb, sorb apple - acid gritty-textured fruit
    • sour gourd - acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds
    • monkey bread, sour gourd - African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
    has: peel, skin - the rind of a fruit or vegetable

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