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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective carefully selected.

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  • adjective of fruit, etc picked by hand rather than by machinery
  • adjective by extension, of people specially selected because of their individual characteristics or talents

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From hand + picked.

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