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Clingstone

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1705, OED Evaluation: N/A

A variety of the peach in which the flesh of the ripe fruit clings to the stone.

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Interviewer: Yeah. Yeah. Um what do you call a kind of a peach where the flesh is tight against the s-- stone. Speaker: That's a clingstone.
A variety of the peach in which the flesh of the ripe fruit clings to the stone.
Speaker: Alice I. Falsham, Gender: Female, Age at interview: 68, Interview: 1976, Lanark County
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