Definitions for clingstones

clingstones cling·stone

Spelling: [kling-stohn]
IPA: /ˈklɪŋˌstoʊn/

Clingstones is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 887 anagrams from letters in clingstones (cegilnnosst).

Definitions for clingstones

noun

  1. a clingstone peach.

adjective

  1. having a pit to which the pulp adheres closely, as certain peaches and plums.

Origin of clingstones

An Americanism dating back to 1695-1705; cling1 + stone

Examples for clingstones

Fruit large, round, yellow, blushed with red; clingstone; ripens in Missouri about the middle of September.

This clingstone ripens in September and attains the size of Elberta.

Listed as a yellow, clingstone peach coming from Bordeaux, France, many years ago.

The pit is small and clingstone; size of fruit is about 1-1/2 inches in diameter.

Though often put down as a clingstone it is, when well grown, a semi-cling and sometimes the stone is free.

It resembles Elberta in size, shape and season but is a clingstone.

Some pomologists rank it as identical with Elberta in growth and appearance except that it is a clingstone.

Late Yellow Alberge is a very late, clingstone peach highly esteemed in southern France.

Fruits very large, of yellow color throughout; meat very firm; clingstone.

Fruit large, round, with a yellow surface; clingstone; very good.

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