fruit salad
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1.0
- noun
- /frut ˈsæləd/
:
ensalada de frutas
- My favorite dish at the picnic was the refreshing fruit salad that included a variety of seasonal fruits.
- fresh fruit salad
- bowl of fruit salad
- fruit salad with yogurt
Bro, think about a who thought of that fruit salad?
- Bro, think about a who thought of that fruit salad?
Examples
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Wendy selected a vegetarian dinner, and Troon ordered a fruit salad.
Fiction book (1991) -
Cory placed her fruit salad, along with eight others, on the long table in the dining room.
Fiction book (1996) -
I do love a fruit salad but I wonder if this is too much.
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Actually I made a fruit salad.
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How about a fruit salad instead?
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You and your friends wish to make a fruit salad.
Academic text (1998) -
She'd made a fruit salad for the symphony board ladies.
Fiction book (2001) -
Meals generally ended with refreshing fresh fruit salads.
Academic text (1995) -
I do recall eating an outstanding fruit salad with cranberries on it.
Blog text (2) -
The fruit salad was canned but served with a little scoop of lime sherbet, which was refreshing, everyone agreed.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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2.3
A mix of small pieces of different fruits often packed in sweet syrup
A cold mix of small pieces of different fruits served as dessert
A dish of fruit and vegetables cut into small pieces served hot or cold
How Fine
Surface Forms
Morphology
fruit + salad
The meaning is directly compositional: a salad composed of fruit, so a B1 learner who knows 'fruit' and 'salad' can infer the dish without prior exposure. This noun+noun combination follows regular compounding patterns common across languages, making the expression fully predictable and transparent.
Etymology
Fruit salad comes from the idea of a salad as something tossed together; picture different pieces of fruit mixed in a bowl with a spoon. That's why fruit salad means 'a mix of fresh fruit', often served as a dessert.