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pipfruit

pipfruit noun: synonym of pome.

Noun

pipfruit (plural pipfruits or pipfruit)

  1. (New Zealand) Synonym of pome.
    • It was noted that direct monetary benefits from the biological control programme would accrue to pipfruit growers and the pipfruit industry.2006, Franz Bigler, Dirk Babendreier, Ulli Kuhlmann, Environmental Impact of Invertebrates for Biological Control of Arthropods, →ISBN
    • Pipfruits differ from other plant models used to study bud dormancy, such as peach and poplar, at the physiological level because the most important environmental trigger for dormancy induction is low-temperature exposure (Heide and Prestrud 2005), instead of photoperiodic changes.2015, James V. Anderson, Advances in Plant Dormancy, →ISBN, page 115
    Synonyms:
    pome

Synonyms of pipfruit

Forms of pipfruit

pluralpipfruits
pluralpipfruit

Origin of pipfruit

From pip + fruit.

Questions about pipfruit

What does pipfruit mean?
Pipfruit means synonym of pome.
What part of speech is pipfruit?
Pipfruit is a noun.
What is the plural of pipfruit?
The plural of pipfruit is pipfruits.

Words near pipfruit in the dictionary

  1. pipeworkers
  2. pipeworks
  3. pipewort
  4. pipeworts
  5. pipey
  6. pipfruit
  7. pipfruits
  8. piphat
  9. piphats
  10. Pipher
  11. Piphers

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