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pepa

9.9

A hard seed inside fruits like peaches or cherries

noun

Philippine

: hueso

The pepa inside the fruit was surprisingly large.

Examples

Be careful not to bite into a pepa when eating grapes.
The orange juice tasted better after he took out every pepa.
She carefully removed the pepa from the peach before eating it.
I found a pepa in my orange.
She carefully removed the pepa from the peach before eating it.
Be careful not to bite into a pepa when eating grapes.
I found a pepa in my orange.

Synonyms

pepita

vspepa

1 6.0

A roasted pumpkin seed that you eat as a snack

refers to hard seeds inside other fruits rather than roasted pumpkin seeds

pip

vspepa

4.1

A small hard seed found in fruits like apples or oranges

is the general term for a hard seed inside some fruits

Surface Forms

pepa singular

pepas plural

Etymology

Pepa comes from Spanish, where it means the hard 'seed' or 'pip' inside a fruit, so a pepa is the little stone or seed you remove from a peach or orange.