unpitted
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6.3
Fruit that still has its hard stone inside like cherries or olives
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpɪtɪd/
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sin hueso
- I had decided to make a cherry pie and was regretting that I'd bought unpitted cherries, so I wasn't as supportive and nurturing as a mom is supposed to be.
- unpitted olives
Examples
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She prefers using unpitted fruits when making homemade sauces.
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The recipe called for unpitted cherries to enhance the dish.
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I added unpitted olives to the salad for extra flavor.
Synonyms
uncored
vsunpitted
1
6.8
The core is still inside, like an apple or a piece of rock
is used mainly for fruits with small inner hard parts, not geological samples
8.1
With the hard pit still inside or not being high from drugs
applies only to fruits with inner hard parts, not to sobriety
Surface Forms
unpitted positive
Morphology
unpitted = pitted (transparent) = un + pit + ed
A regular negation formed by adding 'un-' to the adjective 'pitted' meaning 'not pitted'; the meaning is directly recoverable.
Etymology
Unpitted is made of un- ('not') and pit ('stone inside a fruit'), so it means the fruit still has its stone and the stone was not removed.