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- noun Plural form of
clingstone .
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Examples
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Freestones are generally found in markets, while clingstones are more often used commercially.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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And clingstones were ever so much better for drying than the clear-seed sorts.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
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Leave clingstones on the seed, unless very large, else saw them in three, across the stones.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
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Take fresh yellow peaches, or large clingstones, pour boiling water on them, and wipe off the down; make a syrup of half a pound of sugar to
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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Most of them reproduce themselves truly from seed, as is well known in this country concerning the clingstones, freestones and some other types.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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From inferior peaches, such as these just described, we may pass by small transitions, through clingstones of poor quality, to our best and most melting kinds.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Clingstone and freestone peaches, which differ in the ripe flesh either firmly adhering to the stone, or easily separating from it, also differ in the character of the stone itself; that of the freestones or melters being more deeply fissured, with the sides of the fissures smoother than in clingstones.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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In both classes the kinds differ from each other in the flesh of the fruit being white, red, or yellow; in being clingstones or freestones; in the flowers being large or small, with certain other characteristic differences; and in the leaves being serrated without glands, or crenated and furnished with globose or reniform glands. [
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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