freestone

Pit releases easily

Freestone describes fruit whose flesh separates easily from the pit, the opposite of clingstone: freestone peaches are easier to slice.

The term also refers to the pit itself or to any fine-grained stone (like sandstone or limestone) that can be cut freely in any direction without splitting along natural layers.

stonefruit

peach

Fuzzy stone fruit

cherry · mango · pit · clingstone · orchard · harvest · ripe · juicy · cobbler · jam

masonry

ashlar

Precision-cut building stone

chisel · stonemason · block · carving · building · dressed · hewn · rubble · coursed · wall

geology

sandstone

Cemented grain sediment

quarry · bedrock · strata · outcrop · erosion · formation · deposit · mineral · grain · porosity

Categories
Opposites
pit adherence in stone fruits

freestoneclingstone

Peach with attached pit

cling

stone texture/workability (geological sense)

freestoneflagstone

Flat stone for paving

slate · shale

Family

free, stone

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G