Word Meanings - KALONG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• FRUIT
  The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever
• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• EDIBLENESS
  Suitableness for being eaten.
• FRUITIVE
  Eujoying; possessing. Boyle.
• FRUITION
  Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.
• FRUITLESS
  1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless
• FRUITERESS
  A woman who sells fruit.
• FRUITY
  Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• FRUITER
  A ship for carrying fruit.
• FRUITERY
  1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips. 2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.
• EDIBLE
  Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.
• FRUITERER
  One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
• FRUITFUL
  Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish
• FRUITING
  Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
• FRUITESTERE
  A fruiteress.
• INCREDIBLENESS
  Incredibility.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• GRAPE FRUIT
  The shaddock.
• OVERFRUITFUL
  Too fruitful.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• UNCREDIBLE
  Incredible. Bacon.
• OBEDIBLE
  Obedient. Bp. Hall.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• KEY FRUIT
  A samara.
• CREDIBLE
  Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker.