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Adjective
1. (of fruits having stones) having the stone removed;
"stoneless dried dates"
1 A US firm is developing seedless blackberries and stoneless cherries.
2 It is also working on a stoneless cherry.
3 But starting with genes from a mostly stoneless, conventionally bred plum, Dardick and his team are in the early stages of engineering a fruit with no stone at all.
4 The vast plain of Bornu is stoneless, except for rare outcrops of ironstone, and consists of the porous fissured black earth called “cotton soil” in India, alternating with, or more probably overlaid by, sand.
5 On pony-back we used to make the soles of our feet smack together below the belly, for quadruped and biped were both unshod, and hoof needed no iron on that stoneless sward.
6 Cilicia Pedias included the rugged spurs of Taurus and a large plain, which consists, in great part, of a rich stoneless loam.
7 We told him of the mile-wide fields of the west, and enlarged upon the stoneless prairies of Dakota.
8 One of the manufacturers even has the audacity to boldly proclaim his preserves "stoneless plum and apricot";—as a matter of fact, pumpkins do not usually have stones.
9 The berries upon old Barberry shrubs are often stoneless, and this is the best fruit for preserving or for making the jelly.
10 Silchester lies in a stoneless country, so that stone inscriptions would naturally be few and would easily be used up for later building.
11 In those magazines we read of the great West—"the poor man's paradise"—"the stoneless land of plenty"; of its delightful climate, of the ease with which the farmer prospered on its rich soil.
12 Burbank's Methods—The wonderful Burbank with his thornless cactus, his stoneless plum, and his white blackberry, is simply a searcher after mutations.
13 Ugahden is said to be a flat grassy country, of red soil, almost stoneless, and having water everywhere near the surface.
14 Terraces were constructed 450 feet square, of huge stones which cost millions in that stoneless country.
15 I never saw in the East, except at Meccah, finer fruits than the Shami: almost stoneless like those of Maskat, they are delicately perfumed, and as large as an infant's head.
16 Now on the top of the mountain was a stretch of land almost flat and stoneless, over which they cantered forward, gathering speed as the horses recovered their wind till the pace grew fast.