(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.
Quince
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
(n.) a quince tree or shrub.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that a partial replacement of sugar and fat for apple and quince pastes in apple biscuit and apple shortbread semiproducts led to an increase in the content of essential and sulfur-containing amino acids.
(2) Here are instructions for Iraqi date-filled pies, Tunisian couscous cakes and quinces in wine.
(3) The beta-D-gentiobioside [beta-D-glucopyranosyl(1----6)-beta-D-glucopyranoside] of 3-hydroxy-beta-ionol has been isolated and characterized in quince (Cydonia oblonga) fruit through spectral and chemical studies.
(4) Model experiments carried out with this new natural compound revealed its important role as precursor of a number of C13-norisoprenoid flavour compounds of quince essential oil.
(5) Trimbach adds a little steel to the quince jelly and exotic spice, for a wine that works with Asian spice and Alsatian onion tart.
(6) The thing that impresses me about George is how approachable he is for backbench MPs,” said Quince, who was given the chance to sit down with the chancellor before the budget and air his ideas.
(7) And here they are: • Never cook the fruit beforehand (unless using quinces) • Never cook the two parts separately or deconstruct the crumble in any way.
(8) One new MP, Will Quince, dismissed it as the worst form of “nanny statism” and said there was no evidence that it worked.
(9) Down the road, in Cockermouth, Quince & Medlar chef Colin Le Voi recommends smoky products: "Paprika, smoked garlic, our wonderful Cumbrian smoked cheese, Allerdale, all give vegetarian food an interesting edge."
(10) The cellulosic mucilage of mature seeds of quince (Cydonia oblonga L) was studied both in situ (pre-release mucilage) and after water extraction and in in vitro re-assembly (prolonged high speed ultracentrifugation, further progressive dehydration and embedding in LR White methacrylate or hydrosoluble melamine resin).
(11) Hopes that robots would quickly be able to reach areas of the plant inaccessible to humans suffered a setback when Quince, a $6m robot, lost contact with its operators while monitoring inside one of the reactors in October 2011.
(12) From The Great British Bake Off: How To Bake (BBC Books, RRP £20) Paul Hollywood's Camembert and quince flatbread Paul Hollywood's Camembert and quince flatbread.
(13) George Osborne conjures up a budget trick, but it's not a very good one Read more “I didn’t get what I wanted in this budget,” said Quince, but he did in the autumn statement after urging Osborne to divert money from the tampon tax to women’s charities and spend money on tending war graves.
(14) They were mechanicals, they wore clogs all the time” – so they were creating character through movement, stomping was their dialect, their call and response, and that culminated into a dance-off between Pearce Quigley’s Bottom and Fergal McElherron’s Quince: “A lot is revealed in dance.” They had the audience at their feet from the first stamp.
(15) Eat Bag a table on the patio of the new Thyme Bistro on Quince Road for salads, pizza and fish.
(16) Try adding chopped, cooked quinces to the apple before cooking.
(17) Cream prepared from egg albumin and quince paste had reduced content of amino acids (except for glutamic acid) due to the diminished content of egg albumin, however, the balance of amino acid composition was improved.
(18) Tear or cut the cheese into small pieces, and break up the quince jelly.
(19) Makes 16 strong white bread flour 500g table salt 10g fast-action dried yeast 1 x 7g sachet lukewarm water 320ml Camembert 200g quince jelly 150g vegetable oil Place the flour, salt and yeast in a large free-standing electric mixer with a dough hook attachment.