fruitflesh

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English

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Etymology

From fruit +‎ flesh. Compare Dutch vruchtvlees, German Fruchtfleisch.

Noun

fruitflesh (uncountable)

  1. The fleshy part of a fruit (as opposed to the juice or the kernel/seed); pulp.
    • 1882, Mary Treat, Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden, page 188:
      At this time it is of a glassy yellowish-white color, though it usually partakes of the color of the fruitflesh on which it was feeding.
    • 1995, Gillian E. Hanscombe, Figments of a Murder, page 87:
      Sarah's got an old preserving pan from the Salvos and the two of them scrub it for hours before piling in pounds of fruitflesh and spices.
    • 2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things, page 110:
      […] j. macan is a variety with fruitflesh that is red instead of some shade of pink or ivory; […]
    • 2010, Martinus, The Ideal Food, page 43:
      While the vibrations of the organisms mentioned are really too weak to process the animal food, they are still too strong to deal with fruit-flesh alone.
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