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Afford
verb · 78% connection
To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the ear…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Anchovy pear
unknown · 78% connection
A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Apricot
noun · 78% connection
A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Bergamot
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Bletting
noun · 78% connection
A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Bright
verb · 78% connection
To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Bruise
noun · 78% connection
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Carpogenic
adjective · 78% connection
Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Carpophyll
noun · 78% connection
A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Caryopsis
noun · 78% connection
A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Chokecherry
noun · 78% connection
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Crop
noun · 78% connection
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Cucumber
noun · 78% connection
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten eit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Decay
noun · 78% connection
Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Dewberry
noun · 78% connection
The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Failure
noun · 78% connection
Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Fertile
adjective · 78% connection
Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
Flesh
noun · 78% connection
The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: decay, fruit, overripe.
