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A Bornean orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus) eating a fruit. A frugivore ( / fruːdʒɪvɔːr /) is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds. Approximately 20% of mammalian herbivores eat fruit. [ 1] Frugivores are highly dependent on the abundance and nutritional ...
Berry. A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit. Typically, berries are juicy, rounded, brightly colored, sweet, sour or tart, and do not have a stone or pit, although many pips or seeds may be present. [ 1] Common examples of berries in the culinary sense are strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, white currants ...
Borassus flabellifer is a robust tree and can reach a height of 30 metres (98 ft). The trunk is grey, robust, and ringed with leaf scars; old leaves remain attached to the trunk for several years before falling cleanly. The leaves are fan-shaped, and 3 m (9.8 ft) long, with robust black teeth on the petiole margins.
Forbidden fruit. Depiction of the original sin by Jan Brueghel de Oude and Peter Paul Rubens. Forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden which God commands mankind not to eat. In the biblical story, Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and are exiled from Eden:
Table sugar, honey, maple syrup and molasses are known as nutritive sweeteners, meaning they provide energy in the form of carbohydrates, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
An accessory fruit is a fruit that contains tissue derived from plant parts other than the ovary. In other words, the flesh of the fruit develops not from the floral ovary, but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel (for example, from receptacles or sepal ). As a general rule, the accessory fruit is a combination of several floral ...
About a third of all trade between the U.S. and Canada occurs between Detroit and Windsor. The finished bridge will measure 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers). It will stand 150 feet (45.7 meters) above ...
Burgenland Football Association. The Burgenland Football Association ( German: Burgenländischer Fussballverband, BFV) is the umbrella organization of the football clubs of the Austrian state Burgenland. The BFV was founded in 1923 [1] and has its headquarters in Eisenstadt . The BFV is one of 8 regional organizations of the Austrian Football ...