Blet

//blɛt// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A soft spot on fruit caused by bletting.
Verb
  1. 1
    To undergo or cause to undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

    "c. 1835, B. Maund, The Botanic Garden, Or, Magazine of Flowering Plants, Volume 6, Simpkin & Marshall, page 115, Bletting is in particular a special alteration; it appears that the more austere a fruit is before this is brought on, the more it is capable of bletting regularly."

Example

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"Ziri left the medlars in the cabinet to blet."

Etymology

Borrowed from French blettir, coined by John Lindley.

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