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fleshy fruit
noun
: a fruit (such as a berry, drupe, or pome) consisting largely of soft succulent tissue
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Yes, grapes are botanically considered berries due to the fleshy fruit that comes from a single flower with no pit or stone.
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Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2024
The 18th-century preservation process involved placing the cherries in dry bottles, corking them and then burying them under heavy clay, to protect the fleshy fruits from elements like mold and fungus.
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 20 June 2024
Botanically speaking, they’re classified as berries, which are fleshy fruits with many seeds.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
Because almonds grow in the middle of a fleshy fruit, they are not classified as a nut.
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USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
This region was famous for its crops of sapodilla, a brown, fleshy fruit slightly smaller than a tennis ball, as well as dates, coconuts and castor.
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Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
For example, too much moisture after a period of dry conditions leads to the plant taking up lots of water and expanding fleshy fruit before the surrounding skin can expand, resulting in split tomatoes.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
Bright red fruit such as cherries and strawberries with an undertone of minerality with fleshy fruit on the body and broad tannins.
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Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 10 June 2022
Sour red cherry with bay leaf and fresh blackberry with hints of rosebud and tree bark and just an overall wild character with a touch of grip but plenty of fleshy fruit to balance it out.
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Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1829, in the meaning defined above
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“Fleshy fruit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fleshy%20fruit. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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