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fruitflesh en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The fleshy part of a fruit (as opposed to the juice or the kernel/seed); pulp.
   • 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. 2010, Martinus, The Ideal Food, page 43:
   • […] j. macan is a variety with fruitflesh that is red instead of some shade of pink or ivory; […] 2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things, page 110:
   • 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. 1882, Mary Treat, Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden, page 188:
   • 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. 1995, Gillian E. Hanscombe, Figments of a Murder, page 87:

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