You will find that avocado is unlike any other fruit you have ever tasted.

The fruit is allowed to mature on the tree, but it is still firm at this point.

The fruit is then cooled to 42-degrees-F., a temperature at which it lapses into a sort of dormant state.

This cooling does not change the avocado in any way, it just delays the natural softening of the fruit until a grovelike temperature ( room temperature ) is restored.

Turn off at any one of the marked picnic areas ( gasoline companies have touring service bureaus that issue booklets on national parks to tell you where you have barbecue facilities ) and -- with soft drinks cooled from morning loading up, hamburger, buns, an array of relishes, and fresh fruit -- your lunch is 75% cheaper than at a restaurant, and 100% more fun.

`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

White pepper is the ground seed of the common black pepper fruit.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

In Buddhism, karma ( Pāli kamma ) is strictly distinguished from vipāka, meaning " fruit " or " result ".

Vanilla is obtained from the fruit of the orchid Vanilla planifolia.

The fruit is a capsule.

The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed or " nut " ( which is not a true nut ) inside.

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The fruit is a samara drawn out into a long wing with the seed in the middle.

For example, the Hindu deity of Ganesh is represented as having the head of the elephant, thereby symbolizing that the fruit of righteous worships is abundance

The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in " wild " populations of organisms, such as fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ).

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

In between lies Strathmore, a derivation of the Gaelic for the Great Valley, which is a fertile agricultural area noted for the growing of potatoes, soft fruit and the raising of Angus cattle.

*" Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The yellow fruit fetches a higher market price and, being less hairy than the fuzzy kiwi, is more palatable for fresh consumption.

The name rambutan is derived from the Indonesian word rambutan, meaning " hairy ": rambut the Indonesian word for " hair ", a reference to the numerous hairy protuberances of the fruit, together with the noun-building suffix-an.

Calyx, hairy, four-lobed ; lobes thick, concave, investing the ovary, and inclosing the fruit.

The fruit is a flat hairy pod about long with three seeds.

The fruit of wild gooseberries is smaller than in the cultivated varieties, but is often of good flavour ; it is generally hairy, but in one variety smooth, constituting the R. uva-crispa of writers ; berries ' colour is usually green, but there are red variants and occasionally deep purple berries occur.

The fruit is a legume pod up to 6 or 7 centimeters long which is hairy when new and smooth later.

* Sorbus subgenus Sorbus ( genus Sorbus s. s .), commonly known as the rowan ( primarily in the UK ) or mountain-ash ( in both North America and the UK ), with compound leaves usually hairless or thinly hairy below ; fruit carpels not fused ; type species Sorbus aucuparia ( European rowan ).

The female flower heads develop into spherical fruit clusters each made up of many hairy, maroon-red-woolly achenes.

The reddish to blue, rough-surfaced, hairy, nearly spherical fruit is in diameter.

The colourful seed is initially contained in a hairy woody capsule which splits revealing bright red and black unpalatable fruit ( the black portion being the seed ).

The calyx is hairy, 5-lobed, tubular or funnel-shaped, enlarging as the fruit ripens.

The Pedro Giménez of Argentina has hairy shoots, whole or 3-lobed leaves, roundish berries, branchy bunches and sets fruit earlier.

The fruit is a brownish and hairy capsule.

The surface of the fruit is pubescent and hairy.

aquaeum is distinguished by its hairy leaves, as well as the tightly packed dark yellow fruit on its bunches.

Pollinated flowers develop into a hairy reddish fruit about 2-2. 5 cm in diameter.

The fruit is a dehiscent pod, 10 to 50 cm ( 4 to 20 in.

A cocoa pod ( fruit ) has a rough leathery rind about 3 cm thick ( this varies with the origin and variety of pod ).

Continued stalk growth then pushes the ovary underground where the mature fruit develops into a legume pod, the peanut – a classical example of geocarpy.

The fruit, called a cacao pod, is ovoid, long and wide, ripening yellow to orange, and weighs about when ripe.

The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum.

The fruit is a net-textured, leathery legume pod 6 or 7 millimeters long containing one seed.

The fruit is a siliqua ( pod ) long with an apical beak, and containing several seeds ( which are edible ).

The fruit is an indehiscent legume, sometimes called a pod, 12 to 15 cm ( 3 to 6 inches ) in length, with a hard, brown shell.

The fruit of the Honey locust is a flat legume ( pod ) that matures in early autumn.

The fruit is an oblong pod, 2 – 3 centimetres ( 1 in ) long, containing several seeds.

The fruit is a broad, leathery pod, green maturing to blackish-brown, with a densely downy surface ; in the wild species, the pods are 5 – 10 cm long and 1 cm diameter, but many modern cultivars developed for food use have pods 15 – 25 cm long and 2 – 3 cm thick.

A common name for this type of fruit is a pod, although the term " pod " is also applied to a few other fruit types, such as vanilla and radish.

The fruit is a pod containing several seeds.

The fruit is a flat, twisted legume ( pod ) long, containing several hard, dark brown seeds.

The ' seed ' ( i. e., the fruit pod ) is often confused with lovage seed ; even some dictionaries mistakenly state that comes from the lovage plant.

The raw fruit pod of Trachyspermum ammi smells almost exactly like thyme because it also contains thymol, but is more aromatic and less subtle in taste, as well as slightly bitter and pungent.

The fruit is a pod that can be elongated, compressed, straight or curved, and thickened at the sutures.