fruitflesh
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fruit + flesh. Compare Dutch vruchtvlees, German Fruchtfleisch.
Noun
[edit]fruitflesh (uncountable)
- The fleshy part of a fruit (as opposed to the juice or the kernel/seed); pulp.
- 1882, Mary Treat, Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden, page 188:
- At this time it is of a glassy yellowish-white color, though it usually partakes of the color of the fruitflesh on which it was feeding.
- 1995, Gillian E. Hanscombe, Figments of a Murder, page 87:
- Sarah's got an old preserving pan from the Salvos and the two of them scrub it for hours before piling in pounds of fruitflesh and spices.
- 2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things, page 110:
- […] j. macan is a variety with fruitflesh that is red instead of some shade of pink or ivory; […]
- 2010, Martinus, The Ideal Food, page 43:
- While the vibrations of the organisms mentioned are really too weak to process the animal food, they are still too strong to deal with fruit-flesh alone.