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.

Another odd trait recently discovered is that both caimans and the American Alligator have been observed taking foliage and fruit into their diet in addition to their normal diet of fish and meat .< ref >< http :// scienceblogs. com / tetrapodzoology / 2008 / 10 / alligators_eat_fruit. php ></ ref >

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.

Spur-bearing trees occur more frequently than tip-bearing trees, and they bear most of their fruit yearly at the end of short lateral pieces of wood ( spurs ) up to about 4 inches long.

Vigorous pruning may be necessary ; fruit is produced on lateral spurs and the previous year's shoots, so the 19th-century custom was to trim side branches in the winter, and perhaps trim leading shoots at that time or remove their tips in the summer.

In choices involving both primary ( fruit juice ) and secondary rewards ( money ), the limbic system is highly active when choosing the immediate reward while the lateral prefrontal cortex was equally active when making either choice.

The grapefruit-sized, ovoid fruit has a rough surface, and each fruit is divided into many achenes, each achene surrounded by a fleshy perianth and growing on a fleshy receptacle.

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

The fruit is an acorn-shaped ovoid, three-angled capsule long, partly enclosed at the base by the sepals.

The fruit is an ovoid red drupe ( approximately 5 to 7 mm long and 5 mm wide ) borne on a short ( 1 to 2 mm ) stalk.

The fruit is bilobed, flattened, 40 to 50 cm long ovoid and pointed, and contains usually one but occasionally two to four seeds.

The fruit is an ovoid 3 – 7 cm berry, containing 1 – 4 seeds ; in many species the fruit is edible.

The fruit is an ovoid red berry about 1 cm long, soft and juicy, and edible for birds, which disperse the seeds widely.

The fruit is a bay red ovoid with the aspect and odour of a tiny tomato.

Flowering is followed by the rose-coloured fruit, ovoid and 7. 5 – 10 cm ( 3 – 4 in ) long and 3 – 5 cm ( 1. 5 – 2 in ) wide.

The fruit is ovoid to ellipsoidal, and cylindrical or compressed.

The fruit itself is spherical to ovoid in shape.

Their fruit is an ovoid berry.

The fruit of the damson can also be identified by its shape, which is usually ovoid and slightly pointed at one end, or pyriform ; its smooth-textured yellow-green flesh ; and its skin, which ranges from dark blue to indigo to near-black depending on the variety ( other types of Prunus domestica can have purple, yellow or red skin ).

" Prune Damson ", " Long Damson ", " Damascene ", " Westmoreland Damson ", " Cheshire Damson ") is a very old variety ; its blue-purple, ovoid fruit has a distinctively " full rich astringent " flavour considered superior to other damsons, and it was thought particularly suitable for canning.

The fruit is a globose to ovoid pome 10 – 15 mm diameter, greenish to russet or brown, patterned with small pale lenticel spots when mature in mid to late autumn.

The fruit is berry-like, ovoid or globose, and fleshy.

The fruit is an ellipsoid to ovoid drupe 25 to 46 mm long, with pale yellow to orange flesh, and the seed is a single kernel.

The fruit is oblong, ovoid, starts green and turns pink to shining crimson black as it matures.

The fruit is ovoid, 1 – 2 cm long, purple when ripe, grape-like except for its wintergreen smell ; the skin is rough, inedible but easily peeled.

The fruit is an ovoid capsule containing many seeds.

The fruit is an ovoid capsule, about 6 mm long containing several seeds that ripen underwater.

This plant has a yellow edible fruit which is oblong ovoid and cream.