dried fruit

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   fruit preserved by drying

   Broaderedible fruit

   Narrowerdried apricotpruneraisin

Questions about dried fruit

What does dried fruit mean?

dried fruit means "fruit preserved by drying".

Is dried fruit a common word?

dried fruit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.