clingstone

9.5

A peach whose flesh sticks to the pit and is hard to remove

noun
/ˈklɪŋstoʊn/

: fruta de hueso adherente

Interestingly, Ramming is promoting this new, as-yet-unnamed clingstone as a fresh-market fruit—the kind you eat out of hand.

Examples

When picking peaches, I prefer clingstone varieties for their rich flavor.
The clingstone peach is delicious, but the flesh is hard to remove from the pit.
Many people find clingstone peaches difficult to cut because the flesh sticks to the pit.

Synonyms

cling

vsclingstone

7 9.5

A peach whose soft part sticks firmly to the pit

is the fuller, more specific form of the same name

Antonyms

freestone

Specialized

1 8.4

A fruit whose flesh comes away easily from the pit, like some peaches

How Separable

freestone

Specialized

1 8.4

clingstone

9.5

Surface Forms

clingstone singular

clingstones plural

Morphology

clingstone = cling + stone (transparent) = cling + stone

The compound directly denotes flesh that 'clings' to the 'stone' (pit), so the meaning follows straightforwardly from the two base words.

Etymology

Clingstone comes from the simple parts cling ('to hold tightly') and stone ('the hard pit inside a fruit'). So a clingstone is a fruit, often a peach, whose flesh 'clings' to the 'stone', making the pit hard to separate.