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Common fruit
This list includes common edible fruits.
- Apple: la pomme
- Avocado: l'avocat (un avocat)
- Banana: la banane
- Blackberry: la mûre
- Cherry: la cerise
- Chestnut: "la châtaigne"
- Clementine: la clémentine
- Coconut: la noix de coco
- Date: la datte
- Fig: la figue
- Guava: la goyave
- Grape: le raisin
- Hazelnut: "la noisette"
- Kiwi/kiwifruit: le kiwi
- Lemon: le citron
- Lime: le citron vert, la lime
- Lychee: le litchi
- Madarin/Mandarin orange: la mandarine
- Mango: la mangue
- Melon: le melon
- Olive: l'olive (une olive)
- Orange: l'orange (une orange)
- Papaya: la papaye
- Peach: la pêche
- Pear: la poire
- Pineapple: l'ananas (un ananas)
- Plum: la prune
- Pomelo: le pamplemousse
- Raspberry: la framboise
- (Garden) Strawberry: la fraise
- Walnut: la noix
- Watermelon: la pastèque, le melon d'eau
Related words
- Seed: pépin (example: ces raisins ne contiennent pas de pépins)
- Shell: la coquille (example: la coquille d'une noix)
- Stone: le noyau (example: le noyau d'une cerise)
- Seel: la pelure
- To peel: peler (example: peler une pomme)
Temperate fruits : Rosaceae
The pome fruits
- Apple: la pomme
- Chokeberry: l'aronia
- Loquat: la nèfle du Japon
- Medlar: la nèfle
- Pear: la poire
- Quince: le coing
Prunus
- Apricot: l'abricot
- Cherry: la cerise
- Plum: la prune
- Peach: la pêche
- Greengage: la reine-claude
Berries
Bramble fruits
- Blackberry: la mûre sauvage (fruit de la ronce commune, ronce des haies, ronce des bois, mûrier sauvage, mûrier des haies, mûrier de renard, aronce)
- Raspberry: la framboise
The true berries are dominated by the family Ericaceae
- Bearberry: le raisin d'ours
- Bilberry or whortleberry: la myrtille (commune)
- Blueberry: l'areille
- Cranberry: le cranberry, la canneberge or l'atoca
- Lingonberry: l'airelle rouge
- Strawberry Tree not to be confused with the Strawberry (Fragaria) : l'arbourse
Other berries not in the Rosaceae or Ericaceae
- Currant: la groseille
- Elderberry: le sureau
- Hackberry: micocoule
- Mulberry: la mûre
Fruits of Asian origin
- Goumi: Goumi du Japon
- Kiwifruit or Chinese gooseberry or kiwi: le kiwi
- Persimmon (or Sharon Fruit): le kaki ou la plaquemine
Exercises
ExercisePut the right word next to every picture.
(un) ananas - (une) banane - (une) fraise - (un) kiwi - (une) orange - (une) pastèque - (une) pêche - (une) poire - (une) pomme - (des) raisins (singulier : un raisin)
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Solution
- 1. pomme
- 2. pêche
- 3. poire
- 4. orange
- 5. fraise
- 6. raisins
- 7. pastèque
- 8. kiwi
- 9. ananas
- 10. banane
Sources
- Liste de fruits and links from there
- List of fruits and links from there
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