🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

fruit à noyau

Pronunciation / Transliteration: früi a nu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stone-Fruit/ˈstoʊn fruːt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15000 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Les pêches et les cerises sont des fruits à noyau."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Fruits that have a large, hard pit or stone inside, surrounded by fleshy fruit.

    "Peaches and plums are popular types of stone-fruit enjoyed in summer."
  2. 2

    A category of fruit characterized by a single large seed encased in a hard shell.

    "Stone-fruits are often used in desserts and jams due to their sweet flavor."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'stone-fruit' originates from the combination of 'stone', referring to the hard pit or seed inside the fruit, and 'fruit', which comes from the Latin 'fructus', meaning 'to enjoy' or 'to produce'. The usage of the term has evolved to specifically denote fruits like peaches and cherries that have a single large seed.

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