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dried fruit

dried fruit noun: small fruit that has been preserved by drying.

dried fruit: small fruit that has been preserved by drying
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Noun

dried fruit (countable and uncountable, plural dried fruits)

  1. Small fruit that has been preserved by drying.
  2. (Australia) A mixture of sultanas, raisins, citrus peel, and cherries, used as an ingredient in fruit cakes.

dried fruit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi

dried fruit in Hindi

small fruit that have been preserved by drying
मेवा mevā

dried fruit in Tamil

அங்கவம், வற்றல்

dried fruit in Urdu

small fruit that have been preserved by drying
میوہ mewa

dried fruit in Punjabi

dried fruit, especially raisins, dates, almonds, cashews, and similar edible dried fruits
ਮੇਵਾ mevā
More languagesFewer languages
dried fruit in Gujarati
મેવો mevo
dried fruit in Arabic
فَوَاكِه مُجَفَّفَة fawākih mujaffafa
dried fruit in Persian
خشکبار xošk-bâr

Forms of dried fruit

pluraldried fruits

Questions about dried fruit

What does dried fruit mean?
Dried fruit means small fruit that has been preserved by drying.
What is dried fruit in Hindi?
Dried fruit in Hindi is मेवा (mevā). See Dried fruit meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dried fruit?
Dried fruit is a noun.
What is the plural of dried fruit?
The plural of dried fruit is dried fruits.

Words near dried fruit in the dictionary

  1. Dridi
  2. Dridis
  3. drie
  4. Driebergen
  5. dried
  6. dried fruit
  7. dried fruits
  8. dried milk
  9. dried milks
  10. dried off
  11. dried one's eyes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dried fruit (page history and authors); dried fruit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮੇਵਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); મેવો (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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