destone

Extract fruit core

To destone is to remove the stone (pit) from a fruit—cherries, peaches, olives, avocados.

The term is more common in British English; Americans typically say pit as a verb: She destoned the cherries before baking.

fruit

pit

Fruit's hard seed

peach · plum · apricot · avocado · date · mango · nectarine · prune · pitter · corer

labor

backbreaking

Extremely physically demanding

  • arduousDemanding strenuous effort
  • gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
  • manualWritten instructions for use

toil · effort · digging · clearing · exhausting · strenuous · demanding · laborious · tedious · painstaking

land

clear

Without obstruction or fog

rocks · pebbles · gravel · rubble · debris · field · soil · arable · cultivate · tillage

Opposites
stone removal action

destonestone

Solid earth fragment

food preparation action

destoneunpitted

With stone remaining

unprocessed · core · seed · pit

Family

destoned

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Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G