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The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichætium; perichete.

Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language. Persian berry, the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond. -- Persian cat. (Zoöl.) Same as Angora cat, under Angora. -- Persian columns (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represe…

An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwar…

periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

onging to the family Treronidæ. -- Imperial pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada. -- Pigeon berry (Bot.), the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed. -- Pigeon English Etym: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary…

Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.

The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.

ate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak.

The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.

(Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

t, even ground. This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.

Yielding abundance; productive; fruitful. "The seven plenteous years." Gen. xli. 34.