stone fruit
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- noun
- /stoʊn fruːt/
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fruto de hueso
- In summer, I love to eat fresh stone fruit like peaches and plums that are juicy and sweet.
- stone fruits like peaches
- stone fruits like plums
- juicy stone fruit
Examples
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Pome fruit, stone fruit, tomatoes, mangoes, and strawberries provide good examples where color is a prime indicator of ripeness.
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The problem is that stone fruit is not a product like widgets, which can be manufactured at a steady rate.
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Hundreds of acres of stone fruit trees were bulldozed out of existence as people got out of the business.
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Growers in that state lead the nation in grape and stone fruit production.
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I saw a multi-stone fruit tree in one of the standard catalogs about 30 years ago.
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So these flower first leaf later plants are a lot of your stone fruits, all of your stone fruits actually, they will flower first leaf later.
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These conditions were ideal for the production of a well-structured, well-balanced Albarino with floral and stone-fruit notes.
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"A packer of citrus, stone fruit, and grapes estimated that 20% to 50% of the produce he handles is unmarketable but perfectly edible," the report says.
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Best with: fish, stone fruits (peaches, nectarines, cherries), sugar, infused in anything liquid that you want to smell like lemon (sugar syrup, oil, vinegar).
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Try the crowd-pleasing Skouras Moscofilero ($40), a Greek wine that offers an appealing combination of stone fruit flavor and a soft, creamy palate, thanks to some aging on the lees.
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Synonyms
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An edible part of a plant like an apple or orange
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A soft fruit with one hard stone that holds the seed, like a cherry or olive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a fruit with a single hard seed (pit/stone) inside' is directly compositional from 'stone' + 'fruit'—a learner who knows both words can infer that this refers to fruit that contains a stone/pit. Although 'stone' can also mean a rock, the collocation with 'fruit' and common cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g. French 'fruit à noyau', German 'Steinobst') make the pit sense salient, so it will be readily understood by a B1 learner.
Etymology
The term stone fruit comes from a simple picture: a soft, juicy fruit with a single hard stone inside, often called a 'pit'. So, stone fruit means fruits like peaches, cherries and plums that have one hard seed in the middle.