stone fruit
a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
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Between that and the stone fruit, it’s the equivalent of easing into a cool pool on a hot day.
La Bise adds a fun French touch to downtown Washington | Tom Sietsema | July 23, 2021 | Washington PostThe only trouble with the crimson stone fruit, also called pie cherries or tart cherries, is that their season is fleeting.
This sour cherry pie is summer’s ultimate dessert | Daniela Galarza | July 13, 2021 | Washington PostSo called for the singular pit or stone at the center — which houses a seed inside — stone fruit, also known as drupes, are generally in season late May through early October in the United States.
A guide to stone fruit: How to choose, ripen, store and cook with it | Aaron Hutcherson | July 9, 2021 | Washington PostThere are different types of each of the stone fruit included in this list, but plums are perhaps the most varied.
A guide to stone fruit: How to choose, ripen, store and cook with it | Aaron Hutcherson | July 9, 2021 | Washington PostCompared to other stone fruit, apricots tend to be firmer when ripe and won’t get as juicy.
A guide to stone fruit: How to choose, ripen, store and cook with it | Aaron Hutcherson | July 9, 2021 | Washington Post
These fruits are the resulting hybrids from stone-fruit breeding.
Wash, dry and stone fruit; fill with a half marshmallow or blanched almond or chopped nuts and raisins and roll in sugar.
The New Dr. Price Cookbook | Anonymousstone fruit should be gathered in dry weather, and after the dew is off, for if gathered wet it loses colour and becomes mildewed.
A Short History of English Agriculture | W. H. R. CurtlerA stone fruit; soft externally with a stone at the center, as the cherry and peach.
Handbook of the Trees of New England | Lorin Low DameMany were in blossom, others were in fruit; the latter is an oblong little stone fruit of very bitter taste.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia | Ludwig LeichhardtThe inferior ovary becomes a stone-fruit that looks like a berry.
Field Book of Western Wild Flowers | Margaret Armstrong
British Dictionary definitions for stone fruit
the nontechnical name for drupe
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