fruit drop

noun

1. the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
2. a boiled sweet with a fruity flavour

Example Sentences

On my place thousands of bushels of this fruit drop off the trees and go to waste every year, there being no market for it.

From Project Gutenberg

One can imagine the indolent savage of the tropics, lying under the banana-tree, letting the fruit drop into his mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

It seems az tho it never would open, but by and by it duz, and lets the fruit drop out.

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