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small-fruited

small-fruited

5.3
A plant that produces small fruit
  • adjective
translation icon : de frutos pequeños
  • "Russian M. orientalis may convey resistance to fire blight and less sensitivity to latent viruses than small-fruited Mains species," says Aldwinckle.
  • small-fruited tomato

Examples

  • The small-fruited tomatoes are nice to eat out of hand as a snack.

  • The small-fruited cherry tomatoes are the most popular type of tomato in the region.

  • If you want to grow gourds in one of the northern states, choose one of the small-fruited cultivars, which mature somewhat earlier than larger kinds.

Synonyms

grape-sized
vssmall-fruited
1.3

About the same size as a grape

produces fruit that are generally small and may vary in size

How Big

apple
87 1.0
plum
50 1.0
juneberry
  • US
8.4
small-fruited
5.3

Surface Forms

small-fruited positive

Morphology

small-fruited = small + fruited (transparent) = small + fruit + ed

The compound is a straightforward combination of 'small' and the adjective 'fruited' (fruit + -ed), so the meaning 'bearing small fruit' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word small-fruited is a simple compound of small ('not large') and fruit ('the part of a plant that has seeds and people often eat'), so it literally means a plant 'having small fruit'.