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  • 21fruit farming — Introduction       growing of fruit crops, including nuts, primarily for use as human food.       The subject of fruit and nut production deals with intensive culture of perennial plants, the fruits of which have economic significance (a nut is a …

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  • 22radish — radishlike, adj. /rad ish/, n. 1. the crisp, pungent, edible root of the plant, Raphanus sativus, of the mustard family, usually eaten raw. 2. the plant itself. [bef. 1000; late ME radish(e), var. (cf. OF radise, var. of radice) of ME radich(e),… …

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  • 23Berry — The word berry has two meanings: one based on a botanical definition, the other on common identification. True (botanical) berries are a simple fruit having seeds and pulp produced from a single ovary. In common parlance, however, berries are… …

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  • 24vegetable — veg·e·ta·ble (vĕj’tə bəl, vĕj’ĭ tə ) n. 1) a) A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash. b) The …

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  • 25variety meat — noun edible viscera of a butchered animal • Syn: ↑organs • Hypernyms: ↑meat • Hyponyms: ↑giblet, ↑giblets, ↑offal, ↑heart, ↑ …

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  • 26vegetable — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin vegetabilis vegetative, from vegetare to grow, from Latin, to animate, from vegetus lively, from vegēre to enliven more at wake Date: 15th century 1. a. of, relating to, constituting, or …

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  • 27Rambutan — This article is about the tree. For the cipher, see Rambutan (cryptography). Rambutan Unpeeled and peeled rambutan …

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  • 28potato — /peuh tay toh, teuh/, n., pl. potatoes. 1. Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family. 2. the plant itself. 3. See sweet potato (defs. 1, 2). [1545 55; < Sp patata&#8230; …

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  • 29Leek — Taxobox name = Leek image width = 250px regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Asparagales familia = Alliaceae genus = Allium species = A. ampeloprasum subspecies = A. ampeloprasum var. porrum trinomial = Allium&#8230; …

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  • 30meat — meatless, adj. /meet/, n. 1. the flesh of animals as used for food. 2. the edible part of anything, as a fruit or nut: Crack the walnuts and remove the meats. 3. the essential point or part of an argument, literary work, etc.; gist; crux: The&#8230; …

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