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dried fruit

dried fruit

7 1.0
Fruit with most of its water removed to make it last longer
  • noun
  • /draɪd frut/
translation icon : fruta seca
  • At the market, I bought a variety of dried fruit including raisins, figs, and cranberries.
  • dried fruit and nuts
  • fresh or dried fruit

And for a while I went through just eating like dried fruit.

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Examples

  • Doug was in the galley, brewing coffee and mixing oatmeal and dried fruit.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I think dried figs are my favorite dried fruit right now and they're just so gooey and they work so well in muffins.

  • Got some nuts and dried fruit...

    Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

  • I filled it with my own dried fruit.

    Frances (1982)

  • Many schools served dried fruit on the few occasions when fresh produce was not available.

    Academic text (2011)

  • We have cornflakes, dried fruit and candy milk.

  • Traditionally, it is made from rolled oats, dried fruits, and nuts.

    Blog text (15)

  • Take simple foods like trail mix, granola bars, beef jerky, and dried fruit.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Add nuts, almonds, dried fruits, maple syrup, or honey to it.

    Blog text (16)

  • Combine with chopped dried fruit, soy nuts, and chocolate bits for a healthy and tasty trail mix.

    Blog text (32)

Antonyms

fresh foods
1 1.0

Food that is recently picked or made and not kept to last long

How Dry

dehydrated
1 3.6
sun-dried
4 3.4
dried fruit
7 1.0

Surface Forms

dried fruit singular
dried fruits plural

Morphology

dried + fruit

The meaning 'fruit preserved by removing moisture' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dried' (preserved by removing moisture) with 'fruit' (edible plant product). This simple adjective+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English morphology, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Dried fruit comes from the simple practice of leaving fresh fruit in the sun or warm air until the water is gone and the pieces become smaller and sweeter. Because the fruit is actually dried, the term means 'fruit that has had most of its water removed'.