Meaning of pipfruit | Babel Free

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Synonym of pome.

New-Zealand

Examples

“It was noted that direct monetary benefits from the biological control programme would accrue to pipfruit growers and the pipfruit industry.”

“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.”

“It has been an important pest of pipfruit (the term “pipfruit” refers to apples and pears, because of the small hard seeds (pips) in the centre of the fruit) in Hawke's Bay for at least 50 years (Charles 1989).”

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