The difference is amazing - full, plump fruits bursting with flavour.

This is because I grew up at a time when this plump, succulent fruit was sold almost exclusively in its dried form.

Still to this day, as we get further in to summer, I check out every bramble I pass looking for those first plump, ripened fruits.

Zeuxis's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit.

Quentin paused to run his fingers over the plump, nearly ripe fruit on the nearest vine, pretending to be fascinated by them.

Well-irrigated farms produce plump, juicy fruit and vegetables throughout the year.

She liked breaking off the plump red fruits, each one crowned with a stalk like a star.

Soldiers had observed him, hanging in the air like a plump gray fruit, were beginning to point and grin.

For both types, look for plump fruit with unbroken, smoothly wrinkled skins.

Her hands paused over the lush sprawl of tomato vines and plump red fruit in her small vegetable patch.