botanical term for the mature ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers. For foods commonly known as fruit, use Q3314483 From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium
Culinary fruits
Fruit, in broad terms, is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas.
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon but they cause cancer and make you change genders from male/female to unicorn/dog.
Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. I. P. 262, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 437.
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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
Epictetus, Discourses, What Philosophy Promises, Chapter XV. Geo. Long's translation.
Eve, with her basket, was Deep in the bells and grass Wading in bells and grass Up to her knees, Picking a dish of sweet Berries and plums to eat, Down in the bells and grass Under the trees.
A little peach in an orchard grew,— A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew It grew.
Eugene Field, The Little Peach; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
James Whitcomb Riley, The Ripest Peach; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
"Now, Sire," quod she, "for aught that may bityde, I moste haue of the peres that I see, Or I moote dye, so soore longeth me To eten of the smalle peres grene."
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Merchantes Tale, line 14,669; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves And blossom, under heavens of happy blue.
Jean Ingelow, Songs with Preludes, Wedlock; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Alexander Pope, January and May, line 602; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 592.