EDIBLE FRUITS

    Edible fruit

Edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

    Juniper berry

Berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper

    May apple

Edible but insipid fruit of the may apple plant

    Achene

Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall

Gourd

Any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

    Prairie gourd

Small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant

Blue fig, quandong

The fruit of the brisbane quandong tree

    Acorn

Fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base

    Olive

Small ovoid fruit of the european olive tree; important food and source of oil

    Hip, rose hip, rosehip

The fruit of a rose plant

    Wild cherry

The fruit of the wild cherry tree

    Marasca

Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made

    Hagberry

Small cherry much liked by birds

Chokecherry

The fruit of the chokecherry tree

Rowanberry

Decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree

    Buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut

Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood

    Capitulum, ear, spike

Fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

    Fruitlet

A diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit

    Seed

A small hard fruit

Berry

A small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)

    Aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp

Fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. Blackberry; raspberry; pineapple

    Drupe, stone fruit

Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. Almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube

    False fruit, pome

A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part

    Pod, seedpod

A several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. Of a leguminous plant

Pyxidium, pyxis

Fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released

    Accessory fruit, pseudocarp

Fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry

Buckthorn berry, yellow berry

Fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments

    Cubeb

Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes

    Schizocarp

A dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed

    Freestone

Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit

Cling, clingstone

Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit

    Windfall

Fruit that has fallen from the tree

Apple

Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Berry

Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves

Cranberry

Very tart red berry used for sauce or juice

Lansa, lansat, lanseh, lanset

East indian tart yellow berrylike fruit

    Carambola, star fruit

Deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert

Ceriman, monstera

Tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor

Carissa plum, natal plum

Edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a south african plant

    Citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit

Any of numerous fruits of the genus citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions

    Tangelo, ugli, ugli fruit

Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin

    Almond

Oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree

Apricot

Downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

Peach

Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

Nectarine

A variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin

    Pitahaya

Highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach

Plum

Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

    Dried fruit

Fruit preserved by drying

Fig

Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

Ananas, pineapple

Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

Anchovy pear, river pear

West indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled

Banana

Elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

Passion fruit

Egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks

Breadfruit

A large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts

Jack, jackfruit, jak

Immense east indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted

    Canistel, eggfruit

Ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of florida and west indies

Melon

Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh

Cherry

A red fruit with a single hard stone

Coco plum, cocoa plum, icaco

Plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical american

    Grape

Any of various juicy fruit of the genus vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters

Custard apple

The fruit of any of several tropical american trees of the genus annona having soft edible pulp

Papaw, pawpaw

Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples

Papaya

Large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

Kai apple

South african fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves

    Ketembilla, kitambilla, kitembilla

Maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of india having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves

    Ackee, akee

Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe

Durian

Huge fruit native to southeastern asia `smelling like hell and tasting like heaven’; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts

Feijoa, pineapple guava

Dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves

Spanish lime, genip

Round one-inch caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes

    Genipap, genipap fruit

A succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind

    Chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi fruit

Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

Japanese plum, loquat

Yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies

    Mangosteen

Two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples

Mango

Large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed

Sapodilla, sapodilla plum, sapota

Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp

Mammee, marmalade plum, sapote

Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

Tamarind, tamarindo

Large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys

    Aguacate, alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear

A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed

Date

Sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

    Elderberry

Berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. Wines and jellies

Guava

Tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. Jellies

Mombin

Purplish tropical fruit

Hog plum, yellow mombin

Yellow oval tropical fruit

    Hog plum, wild plum

Fruit of the wild plum of southern united states

    Jaboticaba

Tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in brazil

    Chinese date, chinese jujube, jujube

Dark red plumlike fruit of old world buckthorn trees

Leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee

Vietnamese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried

    Dragon’s eye, longanberry

Asian fruit similar to litchi

Mamey, mammee, mammee apple

Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh

    Marang

Tropical fruit from the philippines having a mass of small seeds embedded in sweetish white pulp

Medlar

Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves

    Medlar

A south african globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste

    Olive

One-seeded fruit of the european olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

    Pear

Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

Plumcot

Hybrid between plum and apricot

Pomegranate

Large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind

    Prickly pear

Round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti

    Garambulla

Small berrylike fruit

    Barbados gooseberry, blade apple

Small yellow to orange fruit of the barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies

    Native peach, quandang, quandong, quantong

Red australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam

    Quince

Aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves

    Rambotan, rambutan

Pleasantly acid bright red oval malayan fruit covered with soft spines

    Pulasan, pulassan

Fruit of an east indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter

Rose apple

Fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections

Sorb, sorb apple

Acid gritty-textured fruit

    Sour gourd

Acid-tasting australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds

Monkey bread, sour gourd

African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp

Coffee, coffee bean, coffee berry

A seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee

    Pip

A small hard seed found in some fruits

Bonduc nut, nicker nut, nicker seed

Hard shiny grey seed of a bonduc tree; used for making e.g. Jewelry

Job’s tears

Hard pearly seeds of an asiatic grass; often used as beads

Oil-rich seed, oilseed

Any of several seeds that yield oil

Baneberry

A poisonous berry of a plant of the genus actaea

    Legume

The fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

    Peanut

Underground pod of the peanut vine

    Screw bean

Spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed

Safflower seed

Seed of the safflower

    Key, key fruit, samara

A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

    Mealie

An ear of corn

    Caryopsis, grain

Dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. Wheat, barley, indian corn

    Okra

Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant

Ash-key

Winged seed of the ash tree

Cowage

Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. Honey

Coquilla nut

Nut having a hard hazel-brown shell used like vegetable ivory

Babassu nut

Hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm

    Cohune nut

Nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts

Apple nut, ivory nut, vegetable ivory

Nutlike seed of a south american palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. Buttons

    Neem seed

Seed of neem trees; source of pesticides and fertilizer and medicinal products

Buckeye, conker, horse chestnut

The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut

    Calabash

Round gourd of the calabash tree

    Mexican jumping bean, jumping bean, jumping seed

Seed of mexican shrubs of the genus sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble

    Bean

Any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans

Nut

Usually large hard-shelled seed

    Syconium

The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets

Bacca, simple fruit

An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. Grape; tomato; cranberry

Drupelet

A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe

    Loment

Seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments