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This list contains the names offruits that are considerededible either raw or cooked in variouscuisines. The wordfruit isused in several different ways. The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of aplant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floralovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweetvegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit, for examplerhubarb."[a][1]
Many edible plant parts that are considered fruits in the botanical sense are culinarily classified as vegetables (for example,tomatoes,zucchini), and thus do not appear on this list. Similarly, some botanical fruits are classified as nuts (e.g.Brazil nut) and do not appear here either. This list is otherwise organized botanically.
Pomes include any crunchyaccessory fruit that surrounds the fruit's inedible "core" (composed of the plant'sendocarp) and typically has its seeds arranged in a star-like pattern.
Also known ascitruses,hesperidiums possess thick and leathery rinds. These fruits are generally sour and acidic to some extent and have a wagon wheel-like cross section.