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.

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.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

Sweetener, flavouring, colouring, fruit or vegetables are then added and the liquid is poured into molds to be served as desserts and vegetable aspics, or incorporated with other desserts, such as a jelly layer in a cake.

Peach or plum flavoring appeared, then more fruit flavors were added until, in some variations, the tea was removed entirely in favor of real fruit.

Flavors may be added in the form of powder, fruit juice, pulp, or syrup to hot black or green tea, which is then shaken in a cocktail shaker or mixed with ice in a blender.

Technically, wine and cider aren't brewed but rather vinted, as the entire fruit is pressed, and then the liquid extracted.

Modern biotechnology can be used to slow down the process of spoilage so that fruit can ripen longer on the plant and then be transported to the consumer with a still reasonable shelf life.

Sugar is used to preserve fruits, either in syrup with fruit such as apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums or in crystallized form where the preserved material is cooked in sugar to the point of crystallisation and the resultant product is then stored dry.

A modification of this process produces glacé fruit such as glacé cherries where the fruit is preserved in sugar but is then extracted from the syrup and sold, the preservation being maintained by the sugar content of the fruit and the superficial coating of syrup.

Lilith as serpent then proceeds to trick Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge and in this way is responsible for the downfall of all of mankind.

This gelatin was then mixed with fruit juice and sugar to make it taste better.

Desiring to reconquer his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for " the third fruit ", ( or " the third crop ") and then enter Peloponnesus by " a narrow passage by sea ".

Maynard Smith then took a change of career, entering University College London ( UCL ) to study fruit fly genetics under Haldane.

Also known as the Chinese gooseberry, the fruit was renamed for export marketing reasons in the 1950s ; briefly to melonette, and then later by New Zealand exporters to kiwifruit.

He distrusted mercenaries ( a distrust he explained in his official reports and then later in his theoretical works ), preferring a politically invested citizen-militia-a philosophy that bore fruit.

They visited the lethargic Lotus-Eaters who gave two of his men their fruit which caused them to forget their homecoming, and then were captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, escaping by blinding him with a wooden stake.

The earliest known official or large-scale celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies.

Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple.

Pepper seeds can always survive the digestive tract of birds ; their fruit becomes brightly colored once its seeds are mature enough to germinate, thereby attracting the attention of birds who then distribute the seeds.

* In the anime Rin-Daughters of Mnemosyne ( Mnemosyne ( anime )) The Tree of life is an eternal tree that bears fruit that grants immortal life to woman, while men are turned into short-lived angel-like creatures who have sex with and then kill the immortal woman.

The flower, self-pollinated, will then produce a fruit.

The fruit can also be hollowed out and stuffed with meat, rice, or other fillings, and then baked.