pit
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3.2
- noun
- /pɪt/
- US
- To prepare the recipe, you need to halve the peaches and remove the pit from each half.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd they pass it in when they chew on fruit and they spit out the pits and so on.
- And they pass it in when they chew on fruit and they spit out the pits and so on.
- But this is packaged up in, in the the peel, in the pits, in the shells.
- Maybe Johnny Diaz likes little packets of salt drizzled in lime juice or lemon or the mango pit pops dipped in chili.
Examples
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Oh, did you hit an olive pit?
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I ate an apple today; instead of a pit, it was filled with wood shavings.
Blog text (33) -
Then she took her olive pits out of her mouth and put them in the ashtray.
Fiction book (1999) -
Greedily, he devoured the fruit, spitting out some of the pits, swallowing others, then reached for more.
Fiction book (1993) -
When eating cherries, make sure to remove the pit before enjoying the fruit.
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The olive pit was left on the plate after I finished my salad.
Synonyms
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3.1
A hard stone in the middle of a peach that contains the seed
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3.9
The hard inner part of some fruits that contains the seed
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2.8
A hard seed inside a cherry that you remove before eating
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9.9
A hard inner layer of a fruit that surrounds the seed
A hard stone inside some fruits that contains the seed
Idioms
Cause a sudden sick feeling of fear or shock in the stomach
Compounds
A strong, muscular dog breed from the United States with a short coat and high energy
- Specialized
1
8.6
A shelter dug partly into the ground with a roof to live in or keep animals
- Specialized
1
9.9
A metal sphere with plutonium that starts a nuclear explosion when squeezed by explosives
- Specialized
1
7.4
A loose mix of small stones and sand taken from a gravel pit and used as is
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pit also means the hard, woody 'stone' inside fruits like peaches, plums, and olives, so a 'peach pit' is simply the fruit's inner stone.