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Example sentences for "like fruit"

  • Shrubs or low trees with opposite, usually palmate leaves, panicled clusters of flowers and drupe-like fruit.

  • The hop-like fruit 2 to 3 times as long as wide; full grown and pendulous, 1 to 3 in.

  • A grain, as of grasses; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the contained seed.

  • Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary, which forms an edible berry or berry-like fruit, crowned with the short calyx-teeth.

  • Flowers perfect, with a 6-parted calyx, persistent at the base of the berry-like fruit.

  • Large tree, ripening its blackberry-like fruit in July.

  • While they were busy the boy went off quickly, and returned with a handful of plum-like fruit, one of which he placed to my dry lips, and I found its acid juice wonderfully refreshing.

  • The gourd-like fruit, called Monkey-bread and Ethiopian Sour Gourd, is also eaten, and is prized for its febrifugal qualities.

  • The Almond-like fruit is eaten, and an oil is obtained from it: the wood is hard, and is used by the Indians in constructing their huts.

  • Wild fruit began to be abundant; the wood-apple and tamarind and a small plum-like fruit, furnished us with many an agreeable repast.

  • Seed-like fruit of arrowhead with corky margins to float on water.

  • The seed-like fruit of those we examine are surrounded each by a sack which is considerably too large for it, as one would be likely to say, but in reality it serves to buoy the denser portion within, much after the plan of the bladder nut.

  • These three plants soon reach maturity and are conspicuous by reason of their unusual size and their flower-like fruit-clusters.

  • All three are beautiful and striking plants, producing their spores in May or June, and conspicuous by reason of their luxuriant growth and flower-like fruit clusters.

  • These fertile fronds are leaf-like below, and are tipped above with their flower-like fruit-clusters.

  • Cestrum Parqui is a very handsome half-hardy shrub, which may be placed in this division from its berry-like fruit.

  • When the corolla falls, the calyx becomes inflated, and expands to a large size, completely enclosing the little berry-like fruit in the centre.

  • The plants included in this tribe are easily recognised by their flowers, which bear a considerable resemblance to each other, and by their berry-like fruit, which has always a persistent calyx.

  • All the species have berry-like fruit, which is generally purple or dark red, and which varies principally in the number of stones or nuts that it contains.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like fruit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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