fruit drop

British  

noun

1. the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe

2. a boiled sweet with a fruity flavour

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Example Sentences

In 2012, after greening and fruit drop decimated citrus crops, Rogers ordered the overwhelming majority of the lab’s 25 professors and 250 staffers to stop whatever they were doing to focus on HLB.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2019

In the heart of remote Ile-à-Vache, an island off Haiti’s southern coast, you’ll hear the fruit drop from branches.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2016

"We just hope now that it doesn't get too warm because that could make the trees shed their leaves and make the fruit drop," Royce said.

From Reuters • Dec. 29, 2010

Early guesstimates provided by growers to the industry group Florida Citrus Mutual indicate a 5% fruit drop among affected groves, with that number likely to increase if there's long term root damage.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.