pipfruit

English

Etymology

pip +‎ fruit

Noun

pipfruit (plural pipfruits or pipfruit)

1. (New Zealand) Synonym of pome
   • 2006, Franz Bigler, Dirk Babendreier, Ulli Kuhlmann, Environmental Impact of Invertebrates for Biological Control of Arthropods, →ISBN:

     It was noted that direct monetary benefits from the biological control programme would accrue to pipfruit growers and the pipfruit industry.

   • 2015, James V. Anderson, Advances in Plant Dormancy, →ISBN, page 115:

     Pipfruits differ from other plant models used to study bud dormancy, such as peach and poplar, at the physiological level because the most important environmental trigger for dormancy induction is low-temperature exposure (Heide and Prestrud 2005), instead of photoperiodic changes.

   • 2016, M. Mani, C. Shivaraju, Mealybugs and their Management in Agricultural and Horticultural crops, →ISBN:

     It has been an important pest of pipfruit (the term “pipfruit” refers to apples and pears, because of the small hard seeds (pips) in the centre of the fruit) in Hawke's Bay for at least 50 years (Charles 1989).