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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

pip

vspepa

1 4.1

A small hard seed found in fruits like apples or oranges

is the general term for a hard seed inside some fruits

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

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.