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Edible fruit

noun

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

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Etymology of 'Edible fruit'

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"Edible fruit" Quotes from Famous Books

... form, the fruit being a mere afterthought. But the effect of the broad pale green leaves, even when frayed and ragged at the edges in and among the dark entanglement of the jungle is so fine that the absence of edible fruit ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... had discovered a tree, the branches of which the Indians of South America employ for making their bows. It was the crejimba, of the palm family, which does not bear edible fruit. Long straight branches were cut, the leaves stripped off; it was shaped, stronger in the middle, more slender at the extremities, and nothing remained to be done but to find a plant fit to make the bow-string. This was the ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne