fruitflesh

English

Alternative forms

• fruit-flesh, fruit flesh

Etymology

fruit +‎ flesh. Compare Dutch vruchtvlees, German Fruchtfleisch.

Noun

fruitflesh (uncountable)

1. The fleshy part of a fruit (as opposed to the juice or the kernel/seed); pulp.
   • 1882, Mary Treat, Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden, page 188:

     At this time it is of a glassy yellowish-white color, though it usually partakes of the color of the fruitflesh on which it was feeding.

   • 1995, Gillian E. Hanscombe, Figments of a Murder, page 87:

     Sarah's got an old preserving pan from the Salvos and the two of them scrub it for hours before piling in pounds of fruitflesh and spices.

   • 2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things, page 110:

     […] j. macan is a variety with fruitflesh that is red instead of some shade of pink or ivory; […]

   • 2010, Martinus, The Ideal Food, page 43:

     While the vibrations of the organisms mentioned are really too weak to process the animal food, they are still too strong to deal with fruit-flesh alone.