Glossary of life

Life Magazine 7 Apr 1910

accessory fruit - fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry
achene - small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
ackee - red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe
acorn squash - small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh; squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
actinidia arguta - climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible fruit
actinidia chinensis - climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
actinidia deliciosa - climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
actinidia polygama - ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings
adansonia digitata - African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
adansonia gregorii - Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
adansonia - baobab; cream-of-tartar tree
ade - a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
adenanthera pavonina - East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
aframomum melegueta - West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds
aggregate fruit - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
alb - a white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves; worn by priests
alca - type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill
alexander - king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC); European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb
almond extract - flavoring made from almonds macerated in alcohol
almond oil - pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds
almond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree; small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
amaretto - an Italian almond liqueur
ambrosia - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal; fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut; any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma; a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
amelanchier - North American deciduous trees or shrubs
ananas comosus - a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
ananas - a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples); large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
anna - a former copper coin of Pakistan
annona glabra - small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit; used chiefly as grafting stock
annona reticulata - small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit
annona - type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs
annonaceae - chiefly tropical trees or shrubs
ant - social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
apple butter - thick dark spicy puree of apples
apple dumpling - apples wrapped in pastry and baked
apple juice - the juice of apples
apple pie - pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar
apple sauce - puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced
apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh; native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
applesauce cake - moist spicy cake containing applesauce
apricot - downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach; Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach; a shade of pink tinged with yellow
arbutus unedo - small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor
areca catechu - southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)
arenga pinnata - Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
aristotelia serrata - graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine
army officer - an officer in the armed forces
artocarpus altilis - native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
artwork - photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
asimina triloba - small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
asimina - pawpaw
asparagus bean - South American bean having very long succulent pods
averrhoa bilimbi - East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit
averrhoa carambola - East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit
avocado - of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado; a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed; tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
baldwin - an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin; English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947); United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)
banana boat - a ship designed to transport bananas
banana bread - moist bread containing banana pulp
banana peel - the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
banana split - a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream
banana - elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh; any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
banner - unusually good; outstanding; long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising; a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
beacon - a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships; a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance; a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes; verb guide with a beacon; shine like a beacon
bean - any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food; any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods; any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans; informal terms for a human head; verb hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball
beefsteak tomato - any of several large tomatoes with thick flesh
bell pepper - large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties; plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
bellini - Italian composer of operas (1801-1835)
berberis - large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds
bergamot orange - small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy
berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves; United States rock singer (born in 1931); a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry); verb pick or gather berries
beta - preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; second in order of importance; the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet; beets
betel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
beverage - any liquid suitable for drinking
bilberry - blue-black berries similar to American blueberries; erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries; erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
bing cherry - dark red or blackish sweet cherry
bird cherry - any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds
bismarck - capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river; German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)
bitter almond - almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes
bitter orange - highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade; any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
black mulberry - European mulberry having dark foliage and fruit
black pepper - pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on; climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
black raspberry - raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
blackberry - large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus; bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle; verb pick or gather blackberries
blackheart - heart cherry with dark flesh and skin cherry; any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken
blueberry pie - pie containing blueberries and sugar
blueberry - sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants; any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
bog bilberry - an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
borassus flabellifer - tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
borassus - palmyra
borges - Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986)
botanist - a biologist specializing in the study of plants
botany - the branch of biology that studies plants; all the plant life in a particular region or period
boysenberry - large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries; cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries
brandy - distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
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; native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
brio - quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
british columbia - a province in western Canada
brown betty - baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs
bullace - small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters
burnham - United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912)
bush lawyer - stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth
businessman - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
butternut squash - buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh; plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
calabash - a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd; tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds; round gourd of the calabash tree; bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd; Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
california - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
calvados - dry apple brandy made in Normandy
cameo - engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring)
campbell - United States mythologist (1904-1987)
candy apple - an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar)
candy - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; verb coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
canopy - a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather; the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air; the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit; verb cover with a canopy
cantaloupe - a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh; the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh
capparis mitchellii - small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit
capsicum baccatum - plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
capsicum frutescens - plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
carambola - deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert; East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit
caramel apple - an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar)
carica papaya - tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
carissa macrocarpa - very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves
caryocar nuciferum - large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
caryopsis - dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
caryota urens - fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
cashew - kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted; tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted
castanea sativa - wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
castile soap - a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
catawba - the Siouan language spoken by the Catawba; slipskin grape; a reddish American table grape; a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas
cayenne pepper - a long and often twisted hot red pepper; ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum; plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
centrolobium - a genus of Centrolobium
chaenomeles - flowering quince
champion - holding first place in a contest; someone who fights for a cause; someone who has won first place in a competition; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field; a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; verb protect or fight for as a champion
chancellor - the honorary or titular head of a university; the person who is head of state (in several countries)
cheerio - a farewell remark
cherimoya - large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples; small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit
cherry plum - small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit; used in Europe as budding stock
cherry tomato - small red to yellow tomatoes; plant bearing small red to yellow fruit
cherry - of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies; a red fruit with a single hard stone; any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood; wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry; a red the color of ripe cherries
chestnut - (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse; a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg; edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea; any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur; wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
chili pepper - very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency; plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
chipotle - a ripe jalapeno that has been dried for use in cooking
chocolate bar - a bar of chocolate candy
chrysobalanus icaco - small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit
chrysophyllum cainito - evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides
cider - a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
citrange - more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade; more aromatic and acidic than oranges
citron - large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved; thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind
citrus aurantium - any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
citrus limetta - lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp
citrus maxima - southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
citrus medica - thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind
citrus reticulata - shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
citrus - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions; any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
clementine - a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds; a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
climacteric - a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause; the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
clinton - a town in east central Iowa; United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828); 42nd President of the United States (1946-); wife of President Clinton and later a woman member of the United States Senate (1947-)
cobbler - tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit; a person who makes or repairs shoes; made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
cocktail - an appetizer served as a first course at a meal; a short mixed drink
cocoa bean - seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate
coconut cream - white liquid obtained from compressing fresh coconut meat
coconut water - clear to whitish fluid from within a fresh coconut
coconut - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk; the edible white meat a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries; tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
cocos nucifera - tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
cocos - coconut palms
coffea - coffee trees
coir - stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut
colorado potato beetle - black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
common fig - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
compote - dessert of stewed or baked fruit
confetti - small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)
cookie - a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site; any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term); the cook on a ranch or at a camp
cooking apple - an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc
cooking - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
copra - the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted
cordia - tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
cornus mas - deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit
cortland - large apple with a red skin
cosmopolitan - of worldwide scope or applicability; composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; growing or occurring in many parts of the world; a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
cotoneaster - any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits
cowberry - low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries; tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
cox's orange pippin - a yellow Pippin with distinctive flavor
crabapple - small sour apple; suitable for preserving; any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acid fruit; any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acid (usually bright red) fruit used for preserving or as ornamentals for their blossoms
cranberry juice - the juice of cranberries (always diluted and sweetened)
cranberry sauce - sauce made of cranberries and sugar
cranberry - very tart red berry used for sauce or juice; any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
crataegus aestivalis - hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves
crescentia cujete - tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
crescentia - a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches
crisp - brief and to the point; effectively cut short; (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; of hair in small tight curls; pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; pleasantly cold and invigorating; tender and brittle; a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat; verb make brown and crisp by heating; make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface
crookneck squash - yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin
crumble - verb break or fall apart into fragments; fall apart; fall into decay or ruin
cucumber - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons; a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
cucurbita argyrosperma - plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
cucurbita foetidissima - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
cucurbita maxima - any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind; plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
cucurbita moschata - any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks
cucurbita pepo - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
damson - sweet dark purple plum
date palm - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit
date plum - an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes
dehiscence - (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound
delonix regia - showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
department of agriculture - the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
dessert - a dish served as the last course of a meal
dewberry - blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes; any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
diamante - adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
dinka - a Nilotic language
diospyros kaki - small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit
diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood
dovyalis caffra - vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits
dried apricot - apricots preserved by drying
dried fruit - fruit preserved by drying
drink - the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; a single serving of a beverage; any large deep body of water; the act of swallowing; any liquid suitable for drinking; verb take in liquids; consume alcohol; drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; propose a toast to
drupe - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
duff - a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
durian - huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts; tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
durio zibethinus - tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
eau de vie - strong coarse brandy
eccles cake - a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
edelweiss - alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts
eggplant - egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow; hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
elaeis guineensis - oil palm of Africa
elderberry - berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies; a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
empetrum - crowberries
empire - an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple; a group of countries under a single authority; a monarchy with an emperor as head of state; the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised; a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
engineer - a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems; the operator of a railway locomotive; verb design as an engineer; plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
ensete ventricosum - large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa
ensete - Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas
envy - spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins); a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another; verb be envious of; set one's heart on; feel envious towards; admire enviously
eriobotrya - Asiatic evergreen fruit trees
espalier - a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat
european blueberry - blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
european raspberry - the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange
fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
ficus carica - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
ficus sycomorus - thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
fiesta - an elaborate party (often outdoors)
fire blight - a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
flacourtia indica - small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums
flamenco - a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet; guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco
flavour - the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; (physics) the six kinds of quarks; the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; verb lend flavor to
flora - a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; all the plant life in a particular region or period
flowering quince - Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms
follicle - any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity
food - any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue; anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking; any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
forbidden fruit - originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)
foxberry - low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
fragaria chiloensis - wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries
fragaria vesca - Europe
fragaria virginiana - North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit; a source of many cultivated strawberries
fragaria - strawberries
framboise - the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange
fruit salad - salad composed of fruits
fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
fruit - the consequence of some effort or action; the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant; an amount of a product; verb bear fruit; cause to bear fruit
fruitcake - a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on; a whimsically eccentric person
fuji - an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages; shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms
gala - a gay festivity
gaylussacia baccata - low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries
gaylussacia brachycera - creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries
gaylussacia frondosa - huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
gazpacho - a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold
genipa americana - tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit
goethe - German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
golden delicious - a sweet eating apple with yellow skin
gooseberry - currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies; spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
granny smith - apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh
grape juice - the juice of grapes
grape - any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters; any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
grapefruit juice - the juice of grapefruits
grapefruit - large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half; citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp
green bean - immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable; a common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods
greengage - sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum
grenadier - deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail; an infantryman equipped with grenades
griot - a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
guacamole - a dip made of mashed avocado mixed with chopped onions and other seasonings
guava - tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies; small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit; small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
hand grenade - a grenade designed to be thrown by hand
harvest - the season for gathering crops; the gathering of a ripened crop; the consequence of an effort or activity; the yield from plants in a single growing season; verb remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; gather, as of natural products
herbert - United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)
herm - a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost
hibernal - characteristic of or relating to winter
hideous - so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
highbush cranberry - deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries
honeydew - the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh
huckleberry - blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States; any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries; any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries
ice cream - frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
ilama - whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States; tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit
infructescence - the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
inga edulis - ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America
ingredient - a component of a mixture or compound; food that is a component of a mixture in cooking; an abstract part of something
irvingia gabonensis - African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
irvingia - wild mango
italia - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD
ivory - a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses; a shade of white the color of bleached bones
jackfruit - immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted; East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
job's tears - hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads
johnny appleseed - United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)
jonathan - red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw
juglans regia - Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
juice - any of several liquids of the body; the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue; electric current; energetic vitality
juicer - a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit; a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
jujube - chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat); dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees; spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
jupiter - the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus
kava - an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub
key lime - small yellow-green limes of southern Florida
kirsch - from fermented juice of black morello cherries
komodo dragon - the largest lizard in the world (10 feet); found on Indonesian islands
kumquat - small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp; any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
la crosse - a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River
lambda - the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull; the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet
lardizabala - evergreen monoecious climbers of South America having dark mauve-blue edible berries
legume - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils); an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae; 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
lemon meringue pie - pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue
lemon - an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory; a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons; yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh; a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit; a strong yellow color
lemonade - sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice
liberty - freedom of choice; personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression; an act of undue intimacy; immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence; leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
lilt - a jaunty rhythm in music; verb articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way
limeade - sweetened beverage of lime juice and water
lingonberry - tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller; low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
liqueur - strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal
liquor - the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked; an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented; a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process
loganberry - large red variety of the dewberry; red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California
loment - pods constricted between seeds and breaking apart when ripe into one-seed segments
long pepper - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas; plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
longan - tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium
loquat - yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies; evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
lowbush cranberry - tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
luffa acutangula - loofah of Pakistan; widely cultivated throughout tropics
luffa - any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge; the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
lychee - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
lycium barbarum - deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries; southeastern Europe to China
macedonia - landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991; the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria
maize - a strong yellow color; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
malus angustifolia - small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms
malus baccata - Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving
malus coronaria - medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit
malus fusca - small tree or shrub of western United States having white blossoms and tiny yellow or red fruit
malus ioensis - wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers
malus pumila - native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
malus sylvestris - wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples
malus - apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere
mandarin orange - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China; shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
manduca quinquemaculata - moth whose larvae are tomato hornworms; large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm
manduca sexta - moth whose larvae are tobacco hornworms; large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm
mangifera indica - large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
mango - large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed; large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
mangosteen - two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples; East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit
manilkara zapota - large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras
mara - hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina; god of death; opposite of Kama
marasca cherry - Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
maraschino cherry - cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur; Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
maraschino - cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur; distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries
marmalade - a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits
marquette - a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan; French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)
marrakesh - a city in western Morocco; tourist center
marrow - the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones; large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins; very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones; any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh; the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
mary pickford - United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979)
massasoit - Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (1580-1661)
mast - a vertical spar for supporting sails; any sturdy upright pole; nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine; nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground; used especially as food for swine
mayhaw - hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves
mcintosh - early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauce
medlar - crabapple-like fruit used for preserves; a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste; small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples; small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
melba - Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931)
melody - the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes; a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
melon ball - a bite of melon cut as a sphere
melon - any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh; any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
mespilus germanica - small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples
mince pie - pie containing mincemeat
mincemeat - spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat
momordica balsamina - a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit
momordica charantia - tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit
monroe - a town in north central Louisiana; a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie; 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831); United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)
monstera deliciosa - tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor
moore - British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986); United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872); Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852); English philosopher (1873-1958); English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935); United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)
mors - (Roman mythology) Roman god of death; counterpart of Thanatos
morus alba - Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit; leaves used to feed silkworms
morus nigra - European mulberry having dark foliage and fruit
morus rubra - North American mulberry having dark purple edible fruit
morus - type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries
moses - (Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus; Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai; United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)
multiple fruit - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
muskmelon - the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers; any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell
must - highly recommended; grape juice before or during fermentation; a necessary or essential thing; the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
nectar - fruit juice especially when undiluted; a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators; (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
nectarine - a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin; variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
nelumbo nucifera - native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
niagara - a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York; waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls
nixon - vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
nonpareil - eminent beyond or above comparison; a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar; colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies; model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
northern spy - large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red
nougat - nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
nurseryman - someone who takes care of a garden
nut - a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt; Egyptian goddess of the sky; usually large hard-shelled seed; one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; a whimsically eccentric person; half the width of an em; verb gather nuts
oil - oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist; a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water; any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants; verb cover with oil, as if by rubbing; administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
okra - tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus; long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant; long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
olive branch - something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace
olive oil - oil from olives
onion - an aromatic flavorful bulb; bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb; edible bulb of an onion plant
ontario - a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada; the smallest of the Great Lakes
opal - a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
opuntia - large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears
orange juice - bottled or freshly squeezed juice of oranges
orange - of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange; orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow; round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees; a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean; any citrus tree bearing oranges; any pigment producing the orange color
orchard - garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
orion - a constellation on the equator east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel; (Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation
palm - the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers; any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves; a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand; an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event; verb touch, lift, or hold with the hands
pandanus tectorius - Polynesian screw pine
papaya - large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh; tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
paprika - a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos; plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
partridgeberry - creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
passiflora edulis - Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit
passiflora ligularis - considered best for fruit
passiflora quadrangularis - tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit
passiflora - type genus of the Passifloraceae
passion fruit - egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks
pattypan squash - round greenish-white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge; squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
pea - seed of a pea plant used for food; a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds; the fruit or seed of a pea plant
peach melba - ice cream and peaches with a liqueur
peach - downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh; cultivated in temperate regions; a shade of pink tinged with yellow; a very attractive or seductive looking woman; verb divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
peanut butter - a spread made from ground peanuts
peanut - of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms; a young child who is small for his age; widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground; underground pod of the peanut vine
pear-shaped - having a round shape tapered at one end; (of sounds) full and rich
pear - sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties; Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
pearmain - any of several varieties of apples with red skins
pecan - smooth brown oval nut of south central United States; tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts; wood of a pecan tree
peel - the rind of a fruit or vegetable; British politician (1788-1850); the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit); verb get undressed; come off in flakes or thin small pieces; strip the skin off
pepin - king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 (714-768)
persian melon - the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large green melon with orange flesh; any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
persimmon - orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe; any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
physalis peruviana - annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
physalis pruinosa - stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
physalis - ground cherries
pimiento - fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked; plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
pineapple juice - the juice of pineapples (usually bottled or canned)
pineapple - large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated; a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
pinot - any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for burgundies and champagnes
piper cubeba - tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
piper longum - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas
piper nigrum - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
piper - someone who plays the bagpipe; type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
pistachio - nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel; small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts
pistacia - a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit
plant disease - a disease that affects plants
plum sauce - for Chinese dishes: plum preserves and chutney
plum tomato - oblong cherry tomato; a kind of cherry tomato that has an oblong shape
plum - adv. completely; used as intensifiers; exactly; a highly desirable position or assignment; any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit; any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
poi - Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment
politician - a person active in party politics; a leader engaged in civil administration; a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
pome - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
pomegranate - large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind; shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
pomelo - large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp; southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
pomology - the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits
potato - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland; annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
praline - cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
produce - fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market; verb create or manufacture a man-made product; bring forth or yield; cause to happen, occur or exist; bring out for display; bring onto the market or release; come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
prune - dried plum; verb weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
prunus alleghaniensis - wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
prunus americana - wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
prunus angustifolia - small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit
prunus armeniaca - temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits
prunus avium - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation
prunus caroliniana - small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
prunus cerasifera - small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit; used in Europe as budding stock
prunus cerasus - rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
prunus domestica - any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas
prunus dulcis - small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
prunus glandulosa - small Chinese shrub with smooth unfurrowed dark red fruit grown especially for its red or pink or white flowers
prunus ilicifolia - California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers
prunus incisa - shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms
prunus japonica - woody oriental plant with smooth unfurrowed red fruit grown especially for its white or pale pink blossoms
prunus laurocerasus - frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil
prunus maritima - seacoast shrub of northeastern North America having showy white blossoms and edible purple fruit
prunus mexicana - small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves
prunus mume - Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits
prunus nigra - small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit
prunus padus - small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry
prunus pensylvanica - small shrubby North American wild cherry with small bright red acid fruit
prunus persica - cultivated in temperate regions
prunus pumila - small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit
prunus salicina - small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
prunus serotina - large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit
prunus serrulata - ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms
prunus spinosa - a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
prunus subcordata - shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit
prunus subhirtella - shrub or tree native to Japan cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-pink flowers
prunus tenella - Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers
prunus triloba - deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers
prunus virginiana - a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds
prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions
pucker - an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth); verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; become wrinkled or drawn together; draw fabric together and sew it tightly
pudding - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed; (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally); any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes
pulasan - fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter; East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan
pumpkin seed - the edible seed of a pumpkin
pumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn; a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
punica granatum - shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
punica - coextensive with the family Punicaceae
punnet - a small light basket used as a measure for fruits
pyrus communis - Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
pyrus - fruit trees native to the Old World: pears
pythium debaryanum - fungus causing damping off disease in seedlings
quince - aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves; small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
raffia palm - a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks
raisin bread - bread containing raisins
raisin - dried grape
rambutan - pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines; Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit
rangpur - hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel
raspberry - red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries; woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries; a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
red delicious - a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide
regal - belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
regent - someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch; members of a governing board
relish - the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; spicy or savory condiment; vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment; verb derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
rhubarb pie - pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar
ribes nigrum - widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries
ribes - a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere
ripening - acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time; coming to full development; becoming mature
rom - (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed
rondo - a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
rose hip - the fruit of a rose plant
rosette - an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor; a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground); circular window filled with tracery; rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
royalty - royal persons collectively; payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property
rubus chamaemorus - creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
rubus idaeus - the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange
rubus occidentalis - raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
rubus odoratus - shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
rubus parviflorus - white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
rubus phoenicolasius - raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits
rubus spectabilis - large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries
rubus strigosus - red raspberry of North America
rubus ursinus - American blackberry with oblong black fruit
saguaro - extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit
salvador - a republic on the Pacific coast of Central America
samara - a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
sambucus canadensis - common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
sambucus nigra - a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
sambucus racemosa - Eurasian shrub
sambucus - elder; elderberry
sapote - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet; tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
sarcocephalus - genus of tropical African trees and shrubs
satsuma - medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin; a variety of mandarin orange
schinus molle - small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits
schizocarp - a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed
scuppernong - amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States
sea breeze - a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)
sexton - an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects; United States poet (1928-1974)
shortcake - very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream
silicle - short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants
silique - narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
slivovitz - a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans
sloe gin - gin flavored with sloes (fruit of the blackthorn)
smoothie - a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk; someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
snap pea - variety of pea plant producing peas having crisp rounded edible pods
snow pea - green peas with flat edible pods; variety of pea plant producing peas having thin flat edible pods
soft drink - nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)
solanum aviculare - Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit
solanum melongena - hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
solanum quitoense - small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges
song - the act of singing; a short musical composition with words; a distinctive or characteristic sound; a very small sum; the characteristic sound produced by a bird; the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy
sorbus domestica - medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit
soursop - large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples; small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
spade - a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot; a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; verb dig (up) with a spade
spaghetti squash - medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti; squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
spain - a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power
spartan - resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people; practicing great self-denial; unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; a resident of Sparta
speer - German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981)
splendour - the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; a quality that outshines the usual
spondias mombin - tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit
spondias purpurea - common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit
spondias - tropical trees having one-seeded fruit
spotted dick - a suet pudding containing currants
squash - a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets; edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable; any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits; verb to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
strawberry ice cream - ice cream flavored with fresh strawberries
strawberry - a soft red birthmark; sweet fleshy red fruit; any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry
sugar apple - sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds
sultana - pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine; dried seedless grape
summer squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden; any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
sunflower seed - edible seed of sunflowers; used as food and poultry feed and as a source of oil
sunset - providing for termination; of a declining industry or technology; the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon; atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun; the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
suntan - a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun; verb get a tan from being exposed to the sun
surprise - the act of surprising someone; a sudden unexpected event; the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you; verb cause to be surprised; come upon or take unawares; attack by storm; attack suddenly
swamp dewberry - of eastern North America
sweet almond oil - pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds
sweetie - a person loved by another person
syconium - the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
symbolism - the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols and symbolic representations; an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
tabasco pepper - plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
tamarillo - South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato in flavor
tamarind - large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys; long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp
tangelo - large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin; hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida
tangerine - of a strong reddish orange color; a reddish to vivid orange color; any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa; a variety of mandarin orange
tango - a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin; music written in duple time for dancing the tango; verb dance a tango
tangor - large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida
taro - tropical starchy tuberous root; herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves; edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
theobroma cacao - tropical American tree producing cacao beans
theobroma - cacao plants
titus - Emperor of Rome; son of Vespasian (39-81); a Greek disciple and helper of Saint Paul; a new Testament book containing Saint Paul's epistle to Titus; contains advice on pastoral matters
tomatillo - small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk; annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes; Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
tomato juice - the juice of tomatoes (usually bottled or canned)
tomato paste - thick concentrated tomato puree
tomato sauce - sauce made with a puree of tomatoes (or strained tomatoes) with savory vegetables and other seasonings; can be used on pasta
tomato - mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable; native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
topaz - a mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone; a yellow quartz; a light brown the color of topaz
transfusion - the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another; the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
trifoliate orange - small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
turban squash - large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end; squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
tutti-frutti - ice cream containing chopped candied fruits
ullage - the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full
united states - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776; the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
vaccinium angustifolium - low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries
vaccinium arboreum - shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries
vaccinium corymbosum - high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
vaccinium macrocarpon - trailing red-fruited plant
vaccinium myrsinites - shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit
vaccinium ovatum - stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements
vaccinium pallidum - low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries
vaccinium scoparium - shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries
vangueria infausta - small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
vangueria madagascariensis - shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit
vegetable - of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant; any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
viburnum trilobum - deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries
victoria plum - a large red plum served as dessert
vineyard - a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced
vintage - the oldness of wines; a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
viticulture - the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing
vitis labrusca - native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes
vitis rotundifolia - native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties
vitis vinifera - common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
vitis - the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes
waldorf salad - typically made of apples and celery with nuts or raisins and dressed with mayonnaise
watermelon - large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp; an African melon
whinberry - erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
white currant - garden currant bearing small white berries
wild apple - any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acid fruit
william morris - English poet and craftsman (1834-1896)
wine bar - a bar that serves only wine
wine - a red as dark as red wine; fermented juice (of grapes especially); verb treat to wine; drink wine
winemaker - someone who makes wine
winesap - crisp apple with dark red skin
winged bean - a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics
winter squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months; any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
wisconsin - a midwestern state in north central United States; a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin
woodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
xylaria mali - fungus causing black root rot in apples
xylopia aethiopica - tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine
yucca baccata - tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
zanthoxylum - deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash
zest - a tart spicy quality; vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment; verb add herbs or spices to
zucchini - small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green; marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small

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