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Assess age of fruit (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

date

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'fruit' is the definition.
(date is a kind of fruit)

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(Other definitions for date that I've seen before include "Romantic meeting" , "Girlfriend perhaps" , "may be fruitful" , "Fruit with stone" , "Year or day when an event occurred" .)

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