(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
(v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
(v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
(v. i.) To bear fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(4) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(5) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
(6) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
(7) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(8) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(11) It is not likely that this is going to be fruitful.
(12) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
(13) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(14) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(15) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(16) (2) The Bunsen-Roscoe Law of Reciprocity was found to hold for the photoinduction of fruiting bodies for the interval 36 to 2000 sec with light of 448 nm.
(17) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
(18) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
(19) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(20) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Pistachio
Definition:
(n.) The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pistachio nut samples taken during various stages of development from orchards in Iran, showed that contamination with fungi occurred mainly during the later stages of nut development.
(2) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
(3) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
(4) Wonderful Pistachios: 'Stephen Colbert' (starts at 00:06) - US Anyone familiar with Stephen Colbert's style of comedy won't be at all surprised to see his suggestion in this teaser that the muscular sports event is merely a sideshow – the real interest is his first commercial for Wonderful Pistachios.
(5) A year earlier, it was revealed that Netanyahu had an annual contract of more than $2,000 with a Jerusalem ice cream parlour to supply his favourite flavour – pistachio.
(6) To slice a box of honey mangoes and set them on a plate; to halve a few strawberries and top them with chopped pistachios or to make a sundae with ice cream, bananas, passion fruit and cream.
(7) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
(8) She produces all the normal taverna favourites as well as more unusual dishes, such as tzitzirafa , the tops of the wild pistachio tree cooked in olive oil and lemon.
(9) The demand for a flared lurex suit in pistachio green might be small but a high street brand sending this look out speaks volumes about where London menswear is going.
(10) 3 Serve the muesli topped with the remainingpoached rhubarb, almonds or pistachios, more Greek yoghurt and a drizzle of honey.
(11) Baghdadi wonders whether to start wearing a big turban, maybe mauve or even pistachio with a silver pin.
(12) Workers in a Kern County almond and pistachio nut-packing facility sought medical care for eye irritation (conjunctivitis) on three separate occasions in 1987 and 1988.
(13) We report two pediatric patients with acquired TEF caused by shells of pistachio nuts.
(14) Recoveries of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 spiked to peanuts, pistachio nuts and corn at the level of 20 ppb were 77.4-81.4, 70.1-77.9 and 72.3-94.8%, respectively.
(15) Born in the village of Bahraman, near Rafsanjan, into a wealthy family of pistachio farmers, Rafsanjani attended a traditional Qur’anic school and in 1948 went to a seminary in the holy city of Qom, where he lived near Khomeini.
(16) 2 Mix the cooking liquor with the oats, cinnamon, yoghurt, half the almonds or pistachios and half the rhubarb.
(17) AFB1 was detected by ELISA in seven out of twelve samples of imported food products including peanut, almond, red pepper, cocoa bean, black pepper, buckwheat, walnut, adlay, soybean, popcorn, and pistachio nut, and by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in four of the samples.
(18) Ancient Russian tanks – rebel and loyalist – were lobbing shells at each other across a pistachio grove like street children throwing stones in an alleyway.
(19) Aspergillus flavus and A. versicolor were both shown to be weak pathogens of developing pistachio fruits, producing aflatoxin and sterigmatocystin, respectively.
(20) The uninitiated can stick to the traditional margarita; the adventurous can try unusual flavours such as black cardamom, grapefruit and pistachio extract.