"hand fruit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hand fruits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hand fruit (countable and uncountable, plural hand fruits)
  1. Fruit that are normally eaten from the hand, like apples or bananas. Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: fruit
    Sense id: en-hand_fruit-en-noun-R9jgwl-p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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