I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fruit basket (= containing fruits )
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He had a fruit basket sent up to her hotel room.
a fruit cake (= one with dried fruit in it )
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Fruit cakes keep for quite a long time.
a fruit farm
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He lives on a fruit farm and helps to pick apples.
a salad/sugar/fruit bowl (= for serving salad etc )
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There are some apples in the fruit bowl if you want one.
dried fruit
first fruits
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the first fruits of the government’s privatization policy
fish/fruit and vegetable/flower etc market
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There’s a good antiques market here on Sundays.
forbidden fruit (= something that you should not have, but that you want )
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Forbidden fruit is always more attractive.
fresh fruit/vegetables/fish/bread etc
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The beans are fresh from the garden.
fruit bat
fruit fly
fruit machine
fruit salad
fruit/potato salad
fruit/vegetable/tobacco etc grower
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apple growers
kiwi fruit
passion fruit
soft fruit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
citrus
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Economically sensitive goods such as citrus fruits , grapes, raisins and wine will face new tariffs.
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The first course, Seared Sea Scallop with caramelized cauliflower, citrus fruits and salsify, is a studied plate.
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A general order to carry citrus fruit was finally issued in 1795, a year after Lind's death.
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The citron has the most beautiful fragrance of all the citrus fruits and its pith is not bitter.
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Strange though it may seem, the origin of all the citrus fruits is unclear.
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Citric comes from citrus fruits , needless to say.
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Evolutionary reconstructions suggest that all the citrus fruits were derived from crosses between four different species.
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And why do citrus fruits contain so much?
dried
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As the name suggests, the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit .
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Stir in flour and coconut and mix in dried fruit and chopped cherries.
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Carissa, a five-pronged white flower with a dried plum-like fruit attached.
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Beat in the mixed dried fruit and milk and turn into the prepared can.
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It was a strange supper - tomatoes, potato chips, dried fruit and cake.
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Combine the dried fruits and mix with the grated orange and lemon rind.
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This way rather a lot of calories can be consumed; the chart gives the number of calories per ounce of dried fruit .
exotic
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Many of the exotic fruits may provide a wonderful meal for the traveller, but some contain a deadly poison.
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Cube for fruit salad with other exotic fruit.
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The first 3O minute tape focuses on 13 exotic fruits , suggesting the listener touch and smell them.
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Other exotic fruit trials are being planned.
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For most of its nations, the tomato was such an exotic fruit that it deserved a noble title.
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Classic New World Chardonnay with vanilla, butter and exotic fruit aromas.
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Grape, apple, unsweetened orange, grapefruit, pineapple, or exotic fruit juices may be drunk in moderation.
fresh
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She only purchased unpackaged products, which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag. Fresh meat, fruit and veg.
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Serve fresh fruit of the season for dessert.
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Virtually fat-free yoghurt or fromagefrais, or fresh fruit for dessert.
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Standard fare is available: bacon and eggs, toast, fresh fruit ranging from kiwi to papaya and crusty croissants.
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Eat plenty of fresh fruit - vitamin C, in particular, helps detoxify the system and promote healthy cell production.
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Michele followed her in with steaming bowls of soup, a cheese board, and a selection of fresh fruit .
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Cereal, yoghurt, fresh fruit and wholemeal toast will give you lots of get up and go.
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Desserts included fresh fruit , delicious fruit flans, cakes, crème caramel and various cheeses.
ripe
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This wine is light and fresh with ripe appley fruit .
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Start with fresh, ripe fruit , then rinse carefully in cold water and drain well or pat dry with paper towel.
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Spoon the ripe passion fruit pulp evenly over the custard.
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I glance up from my book to notice the apple tree heavy with ripe fruit .
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This wine is fresh and fruity with ripe tropical fruit flavours.
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This feature usefully serves other primates, which consume considerable amounts of ripe fruit: rich in vitamins, minerals and fibre.
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Success fell into their laps like ripe fruit from a tree.
soft
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In the Perth/Borders area tourism and soft fruit occupied the summer and autumn periods.
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It just seemed a pity that Norfolk should have no more appetising soft fruit .
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I toddled through the gate and made for the tree because it was studded all over with soft dark fruit .
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In summer, the scrubbed slatted shelves inside the fruit house are used as a temporary store for soft fruits.
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Then it had been filled again, but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land.
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Young and vibrant. Soft round buttery fruit in the mouth, trailing off a little on the finish, Very chardonnay.
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September Take cuttings from strong young shoots and root outdoors as for soft fruit .
tropical
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Other tropical fruits such as mangoes and papaya could be next for the treatment.
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Garnish with tropical fruits and sauteed wild mushrooms, if desired.
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Zimmermann Graeff's Exotic Buck's Fizz is made with delicious tropical fruit juices including pineapple and passion fruit.
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This wine is fresh and fruity with ripe tropical fruit flavours.
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It can not get enough high-quality organic tropical fruit .
■ NOUN
bat
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Some species of fruit bat also sip nectar when it is available.
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Probably, like the fruit bat Rousettus, they just time the silent interval between each click and its echo.
cake
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Brush the glaze while still hot over a fruit cake , but allow to cool slightly before spreading over a sponge cake.
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She then produced an amazing sunken fruit cake from a tin.
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A waitress arrived and he ordered a pot of tea and fruit cake for six.
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And a slice of fruit cake , please.
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Now give me a piece of that fruit cake and stop being silly.
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Or maybe the holidays began when Mom bought all the fruit and nuts for the fruit cake she made in November.
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I am having trouble with my fruit cakes !
fly
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Worms and fruit flies , too, have had all their units read off.
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The drug tests have been done so far only in fruit flies .
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A search through their genes reveals a set almost identical to those that help make the wing of a fruit fly .
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Then make sure you cover it, because those citrus pieces will attract fruit flies .
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Mutation could once be studied only in bacteria or in fruit flies .
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And the fruit fly rule holds.
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The only problem with the Clivus to date has been an outbreak of fruit flies inside the tank.
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Rotting guavas and fruit flies that hover around them are also prevalent on the ridge route.
juice
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So, try wholemeal rather than white bread and fruit juice as opposed to squash.
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If you like, include individually wrapped, reduced-fat string cheese for calcium or substitute fruit juice for the dried fruit.
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Huge jugs of fruit juice were being pressed on guests, rather than booze.
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Serve over ice as is, or dilute to taste with water, fruit juice and / or a dash of rum.
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During the day I drink only mineral water, fresh fruit juice , coffee or tea.
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There was fruit juice in the refrigerator.
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More and more people were able to join the fruit juice , fresh veg and ready-meal eating classes.
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The characterizing ingredients of sherbet include fruits and fruit juices .
kiwi
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They had not mentioned Kiwi fruit , nor the avocado and they definitely hadn't warned him about the pine kernels.
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Sliced kiwi fruit may be used to decorate the dessert.
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Peel and slice the kiwi fruit .
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Nearby is a new little grocery store selling expensive avocados, bottled prawns and kiwi fruit .
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The first casualty was the poor Kiwi fruit .
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Pile the cottage cheese on to the potatoes and arrange slices of kiwi fruit on top.
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Kiwi is now safely back at home enjoying his usual vegetarian diet of oranges, apples and of course kiwi fruit .
machine
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Takings rose 45 percent when the secret aroma was tested on Las Vegas fruit machines .
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I play the space games and the fruit machines .
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Behind them an old woman is standing, staring constantly at the fruit machine .
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The pick axe was left embedded in a fruit machine .
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Two raids: Raiders have broken into a Ferryhill community centre and stole cash from a fruit machine and cigarettes.
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There was a badly lit hallway with two fruit machines standing on either side like sentries.
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There were a couple of yobbo's playing a disc-only fruit machine .
passion
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Add the passion fruit , gelatine and Armagnac or brandy.
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Specifically, it is citrus vodka, orange passion fruit liqueur, and a hint of sweet and sour.
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Serve either in the little dishes garnished with whipped cream and passion fruit or turn them out into plates.
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Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.
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Never has a passion fruit tasted sweeter.
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Zimmermann Graeff's Exotic Buck's Fizz is made with delicious tropical fruit juices including pineapple and passion fruit.
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The most popular include apricot, blackcurrant, cinnamon, lemon and orange, passion fruit , peach and spice.
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Serve the purée in a pool around 2 scoops of ready-made sorbet such as passion fruit .
salad
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Leave for 45 mins for a luxury fruit salad .
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She decided to make a fruit salad , and sat peeling and chopping as the children ate their tea.
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If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad .
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We then had a bowl of fruit salad , and there was change from the price of a glass of beer.
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Cube for fruit salad with other exotic fruit.
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There followed a succession of delicious Delhi kebabs rounded off with fruit chaat: a kind of spicy fruit salad .
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It precedes a saute of liver and bacon, potato croquettes and fruit salad .
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They consumed avocado pears followed by roast lamb followed by a fruit salad and assorted cheeses.
tree
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Pomona - Roman goddess of fruit trees .
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Over there is our herb garden, and here are some fruit trees , from which we are cultivating a new strain.
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The fruit tree man grabbed us and hauled us through a jungle of fruit trees.
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Now, fruit trees are sprayed to cure their diseases, and salmon farmers use drugs by the sack.
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The fruit tree man is an old hippie.
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Some fruit trees are still dug up from the nursery in autumn and sold with their roots bare.
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Star fruit trees like well-draining, moist and slightly acid soil.
■ VERB
bear
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Some investment does not bear fruit .
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What contacts there are do not always bear fruit .
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The first is that the policies have largely been implemented as intended and that they are bearing fruit .
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It bears fruit continuously throughout the growing season.
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Whether the 90s will bear further fruit remains to be seen.
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Then he continued to the town with the apple tree and told the townsman how to make the tree bear fruit again.
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The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.
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Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter.
eat
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Now she would never be able to eat her favourite fruit without thinking of him - bitter-sweet memory.
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The small, round, dark blue skin invites instant eating , and the fruit is amazingly versatile on the table.
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You sometimes try to eat more fruit but the secret store of chocolate goes down just as fast.
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I ate some fruit , followed by a tuna sandwich made with solid wholemeal bread and headed for Toby's house.
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Oriental women, they eat this fruit when they go into labor.
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There is a fruit growing on the branch, which the man plucks and eats .
enjoy
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We certainly all enjoyed the fruit .
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Another photographer would have proceeded to enjoy the fruits of such success, basing himself in New York or London.
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For style purposes, choose your plants carefully to enjoy the fruit of your labour all year round.
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In Bogota, they discovered that once they could enjoy the forbidden fruit , they lost their appetite.
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They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture.
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In September 1939 the Congress politicians who were enjoying the fruits of office abruptly discovered the limits of their power.
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With its political basis ensured, the government could now settle down to consolidate and enjoy the fruits of recovery.
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So they stayed in an hotel in Hampstead and did the sights and enjoyed some of the fruits of his undoubted success.
grow
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That seed grew because its fruit was sweet.
pick
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A traditional expedition to pick the dark fruit for a twelve months' supply of jellies and jams.
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Would Harry like a job picking fruit ?
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It is now that a man may pick the flowers and fruit of his lifetime, and complete his gardens of philosophy.
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Many food banks provide volunteer gleaners, or pickers, who will come to your house to pick the fruit .
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After that they will pick summer fruit until next winter grinds around.
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And the day-laborers ride their thumbs to Florida to pick fruit and scrub toilets for retired Republicans.
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Unfortunately small animals such as hedgehogs can get entangled in the net, and removing it to pick the fruit can be tricky.
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Now he stands on ladders picking fruit and waiting for the maximum leaders to tell him where he goes next.
produce
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Nor, understandably did he see much point in repeating the Dilizhan exercise which had produced no tangible fruits .
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Too many good minds are delving into this area for it not to produce fruit .
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She then produced an amazing sunken fruit cake from a tin.
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A mind can not be prevented from dreaming, it can only be plucked when it produces fruit .
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This uses up energy, weakening the plant and reducing its chances of producing viable fruit .
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He returned to the cab and produced two large orange-colored fruit , a kind we had never seen.
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It takes time, effort and money to produce top quality fruit and this is reflected in the price.
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Just remember that, in nature, what is well-pruned invariably produces the most fruit .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bear fruit
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The boys remained optimistic that their musical career might bear fruit.
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The campaign for debt relief will not bear fruit for another two or three years.
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The project may not begin to bear fruit for at least two years.
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However, these plants will not bear fruit as a rule.
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It bears fruit continuously throughout the growing season.
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Networking A development which seems likely to bear fruit was the creation of a working party from within the panel.
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Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter.
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Some investment does not bear fruit.
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The first is that the policies have largely been implemented as intended and that they are bearing fruit.
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The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.
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Then he continued to the town with the apple tree and told the townsman how to make the tree bear fruit again.
cotton picker/fruit picker etc
fruit cocktail
lemon/fruit/chocolate etc drop
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Bob had a brown paper poke in his hand from which he was eating magic mushrooms as if they were lemon drops .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jack grows a variety of fruits and vegetables in the garden.
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We usually eat fresh fruit after dinner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for this year's event the fruits of its endeavours may not be fairly assessed in the short term.
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As the deficit developed, it enabled the fruits of that revolution to seem greater to consumers than they really were.
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As they toured the country showing the fruits of seismic tomography, they fanned the flames of interest in this new technique.
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Pomiculture - the cultivation of fruit .
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The seasons of history cause the flowers and the fruit to fall, but the tree remains.
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Then it was usually delicatessen, a filled roll or some cheese or fruit , anything that could be gobbled up quickly.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cotton picker/fruit picker etc
fruit cocktail
lemon/fruit/chocolate etc drop
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Bob had a brown paper poke in his hand from which he was eating magic mushrooms as if they were lemon drops .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The black and white feeds in a narrow range of tree species and when none is fruiting it eats leaves.
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The city was all cracks and crevices wetly fruiting, burgeoning.