a long, white vegetable with green leaves on top that tastes and smells like an onion, leek uk /liːk/ us /liːk/, a vegetable that is usually green, red, or yellow, has a rounded shape, and is hollow with seeds in the middle, bell pepper or sweet pepper uk /ˈbel ˌpep.ər/ us /ˈbel ˌpep.ɚ/, an oval, purple vegetable that is white inside and is usually eaten cooked, eggplant us / aubergine uk /ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/ us /ˈoʊ.bɚ.ʒiːn/, a plant of the onion family that has a strong taste and smell and is used in cooking to add flavour, garlic uk /ˈɡɑː.lɪk/ us /ˈɡɑːr.lɪk/, a plant with pale green, juicy stems that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable, asparagus uk /əˈspær.ə.ɡəs/ us /əˈsper.ə.ɡəs/, a large, round vegetable with hard, yellow or orange flesh, pumpkin uk /ˈpʌmp.kɪn/ us /ˈpʌmp.kɪn/, a plant with large, green leaves, eaten uncooked in salads, lettuce uk /ˈlet.ɪs/ us /ˈlet̬.ɪs/, a small juicy red fruit that has small brown seeds on its surface, or the plant with white flowers on which this fruit grows, strawberry uk /ˈstrɔː.bər.i/ us /ˈstrɑːˌber.i/, a small, round fruit with a thin, smooth, red, purple, or yellow skin, sweet, soft flesh, and a single large, hard seed, or the tree on which this fruit grows, plum uk /plʌm/ us /plʌm/, a sweet, soft, purple or green fruit with many seeds, or a tree from the ficus family on which these grow, fig uk /fɪɡ/ us /fɪɡ/, a small, red or green seed case from particular types of pepper plant that is used to make some foods spicy, chilli uk /ˈtʃɪl.i/ us /ˈtʃɪl.i/ plural chillies, a round fruit with firm, white flesh and a green, red, or yellow skin, apple uk /ˈæp.əl/ us /ˈæp.əl/, the part of the maize plant that is shaped like a cylinder, and is cooked with the sweet yellow or white grains on it, corn cob uk /ˌkɔːnˈkɒb/ us /ˌkɔːrn kɑːb/, the spicy root of a tropical plant that is used in cooking or preserved in sugar, or a powder made from this root, used as a spice, ginger uk /ˈdʒɪn.dʒər/ us /ˈdʒɪn.dʒɚ/, a vegetable with wide, dark green leaves that are eaten cooked or uncooked, spinach uk /ˈspɪn.ɪtʃ/ us /ˈspɪn.ɪtʃ/, a long, pointed root that is usually orange in colour, eaten as a vegetable, carrot uk /ˈkær.ət/ us /ˈker.ət/, (the yellow flesh and juice of) a large tropical fruit with a rough orange or brown skin and pointed leaves on top, pineapple uk /ˈpaɪnˌæp.əl/ us /ˈpaɪnˌæp.əl/, a small soft red fruit, or the bush on which it grows, raspberry uk /ˈrɑːz.bər.i/ us /ˈræz.ber.i/, a fruit with a rough, brown shell and sweet, white flesh around a large, shiny, brown seed, or the evergreen tree (= one that never loses its leaves) on which this fruit grows, lychee (also litchi) uk /ˈlaɪ.tʃiː/ us /ˈliː.tʃiː/, a fruit that is like a large orange, but has a yellow skin and tastes less sweet, grapefruit uk /ˈɡreɪp.fruːt/ us /ˈɡreɪp.fruːt/a fruit that is like a large orange, but has a yellow skin and tastes less sweet, an orange several-seeded globular berry that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely astringent when unripe, persimmon uk /pəˈsɪm.ən/ us /pɚˈsɪm.ən/the usually orange several-seeded globular berry of a persimmon that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely astringent when unripeuk /ˈlaɪ.tʃiː/ us /ˈliː.tʃiː/, a small green berry that has a sour taste, gooseberry uk /ˈɡʊz.bər.i/ us /ˈɡʊz.bər.i/, a small fruit with thick purple or yellow skin and many seeds, passion fruit uk /ˈpæʃ.ən ˌfruːt/ us /ˈpæʃ.ən ˌfruːt/, a large, round or oval-shaped fruit with dark green skin, sweet pink flesh, and a lot of black seeds, watermelon uk /ˈwɔː.təˌmel.ən/ us /ˈwɑː.t̬ɚˌmel.ən/, a round fruit with sweet yellow flesh that has a lot of juice, a slightly furry red and yellow skin, and a large seed in its centre, peach uk /piːtʃ/ us /piːtʃ/, the fruit of a central Asian tree (Cydonia oblonga) of the rose family that resembles a hard-fleshed yellow apple and is used especially in preserves, quince uk /kwɪns/ us /kwɪns/, a small, round, purple or pale green fruit that you can eat or make into wine:, grape uk /ɡreɪp/ us /ɡreɪp/

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