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Spanish term or phrase:Carozo
English translation:Stone pit
Entered by: slothm
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21:54 May 8, 2008
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Marketing - Agriculture / Fruit Export and Import
Spanish term or phrase: caroso
Some kind of stone fruit, text is from Argentina - could be a typo since I can't find it anywhere:
"Nuestros principales productos son manzanas, peras, uva de mesa, fruta de hueso (**caroso**, nectarinas)"
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 03:46
stone pit fruit
Explanation:
...apples, pears, table grapes, stone pit fruit, nectarines...
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slothm
Local time: 22:46
Grading comment
Big struggle to award the points, you are all amazing :-)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2stone pit fruitslothm
5 +1carozo (stone/pit)
Lucy Phillips
4corncob
bbt-ruth
3 +1carozoliz askew


Discussion entries: 2





  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
carozo (stone/pit)


Explanation:
I think this is a typo for 'carozo', term used in Argentina for the stone of a fruit

Lucy Phillips
Local time: 02:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marina Soldati
3 mins
  -> gracias Marina
neutral  liz askew: They must be talking about the fruits here.
10 mins
  -> agreed - my answer was intended to clarify the typo!
neutral  Terry Burgess: Sorry Lucy, but I have to agree with Liz on this. It's the fruit[s] they're talking about. See my agree with Liz.
19 mins
  -> no worries Terry, I thought the issue here was the typo - I agree that it is a clarification of a type of fruit!
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
carozo


Explanation:
carozo
Englisch: stone pit fruit tree
Eingetragen von: Marian Greenfield
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Übersetzungen Spanisch > Englisch [PRO]
Landwirtschaft / agriculture
Spanisch: carozo
In Chile, specifically

the context is some product being planted. Some of the grower's other products are avocados and table grapes. I suspect it might be corn, but that's just a guess, since <carozo> generally means <cob>. Any references welcome.

Marian Greenfield
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stone pit fruit trees
This is what the RAE says:

carozo. (Del lat. vulg. carudĭum, der. del gr. καρύδιoν, avellana).
1. m. Corazón de la mazorca.
2. m. Hueso del melocotón y otras frutas.
3. m. Sal. Hueso de la aceituna bien molido con que se ceba a los cerdos.
4. m. Esp. occid. Am. Cada una de las diferentes partes más o menos duras de frutas.

Plum Pox Potyvirus, Surveillance - Canada (03) (Tue 8/22/00 6:44 ... - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... say that plum pox, which attacks "stone pit fruit trees" and renders the fruit dry
and inedible, will typically infect a tree for 2 or 3 years before farmers ...
www.agnic.org/pmp/2000/ppp0822.html

"Stone Fruit2 - Tree Fruit & Berry Pathology - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... plums, and prunes. These fruits are characterized as having a hard stony pit (seed)
surrounded by a fleshy fruit. ... and Prune Resources. ... Stone Fruit Resources. ...
www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/extension/tfabp/stone.shtml

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Note added at 22 mins (2008-05-08 22:17:38 GMT)
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SO

Plums or Prunes

in this instance

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Note added at 23 mins (2008-05-08 22:18:25 GMT)
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Sabinfrut
Stone Fruits / Carozos. Plums / Ciruelas (Prunus domestica) ... Plums Larry Ann. Box 15 Wheitg Net / Kg. January - February. Nectarín Platano ...
sabinfrut.com/prod_agricolas3.html - 24k - Cached - Similar pages

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Note added at 23 mins (2008-05-08 22:18:36 GMT)
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OR

just

stone fruits

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Note added at 24 mins (2008-05-08 22:19:50 GMT)
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[PDF]
1. INTRODUCCIÓN La demanda de carozos chilenos desde los mercados ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
una importante cifra de carozos hacia el hemisferio norte, gracias a su producción ...... Developing Pre-conditioning Protocols for Plums, Nectarines ...
ucv.altavoz.net/prontus_unidacad/site/artic/20061206/asocfile/20061206120557/labrin__matias.pdf - Similar pages

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 57

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Terry Burgess: it's "stone fruit", in brackets clarifying by way of the more familiar colloquialism and specifying nectarines, a variety of peach, just like me [my smooth & downless head]:-))
11 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
stone pit fruit


Explanation:
...apples, pears, table grapes, stone pit fruit, nectarines...


slothm
Local time: 22:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Big struggle to award the points, you are all amazing :-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andr饢 onClick= Goreux
3 hrs
agree  Deborah Lockett: http://images.google.es/imgres?imgurl=http://www.viarural.co...
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
corncob


Explanation:
I think might be a typo

so carozo is according to babylon:

carozo (m)

n. corncob, core of an ear of corn; fruit pit, stone, seed (Latin America)




bbt-ruth
United States
Local time: 21:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in HebrewHebrew
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Changes made by editors
May 9, 2008 - Changes made by slothm:
Edited KOG entryslothm's old entry - "Carozo" => "Stone pit "
May 9, 2008 - Changes made by slothm:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term


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