fruit drop

noun

1. the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
2. a boiled sweet with a fruity flavour

Example Sentences

Working over a bowl, using a paring knife, remove each segment from the fruit, letting the fruit drop into the bowl.

From Washington Post

In 2012, after greening and fruit drop decimated citrus crops, Rogers ordered the overwhelming majority of the lab’s 25 professors and 250 staffers to stop whatever they were doing to focus on HLB.

From Washington Post

Tom Bellamore, president of the California Avocado Commission, was in the groves last week, where he saw shriveled leaves, branches that were badly sunburned and some fruit drop, particularly on younger trees.

From Los Angeles Times

In the heart of remote Ile-à-Vache, an island off Haiti’s southern coast, you’ll hear the fruit drop from branches.

From Slate

An infected psyllid sucks the soft tissue out of a citrus tree’s leaves, depositing bacteria that clog the tree’s vascular system and cause defoliation, massive fruit drop and root dieback.

From Washington Times