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"FRUIT is a round, many-seeded capsule about 3/16 inch (4 mm) in diameter." in:
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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When, for instance, the mind interprets a strange object as a pear-shaped, thin-rinded, many-seeded fruit, all these interpreting ideas are, in a sense, revivals of past experience; yet none carry with them any distinct reference to past time.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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As the fruit develops, the soft tissue of the septa extends between the single seeds; the ripe fruit is thus unilocular and many-seeded.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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BLUEBERRIES, which are not cultivated, but grow in the wild state, are a many-seeded berry, blue or bluish-black in color.
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_Fruit: _ A fleshy, yellowish, egg-shaped, many-seeded fruit about 2 in. long.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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In July, a sweetly mawkish many-seeded fruit, resembling a yellow egg-tomato, delights the uncritical palates of the little people, who should be warned, however, against putting any other part of this poisonous, drastic plant in their mouths.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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_Fruit: _ A many-seeded round or egg-shaped pod tipped with the awl-shaped style.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Beautiful gardens bloomed forth, full of gay flowers, olive - trees, orange-trees, citron, and fig, and pomegranate-trees, each covered with its golden fruit of many-seeded apples.
The Greylock Georg Ebers 1867
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A solemn and festal procession was passing out through the door of their house, headed by flute-players and singing-girls; then came a white bull; a garland of the scarlet flowers of the pomegranate -- [This tree was regarded as the symbol of fertility, on account of its many-seeded fruit.] -- hung round its massive neck, and its horns were gilt.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Beautiful gardens bloomed forth, full of gay flowers, olive-trees, orange-trees, citron, and fig, and pomegranate-trees, each covered with its golden fruit of many-seeded apples.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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