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The entire fruit—from the juice to the rind—is incredibly useful in the kitchen and nearly impossible to source locally.—Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 7 June 2026 Grown-ups bring a ladder to climb into the enormous fruit, kids gather up their inflatable toys, someone makes a waterslide out of a piece of rind, and the whole community spends the day splashing in the juice and pulp (being careful to remove the seeds first).—Literary Hub, 1 June 2026 The plant produces edible summer fruit with red or yellow flesh and a rind that can be eaten raw or pickled.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026 Parmesan producers have begun embedding salt-grain-sized, edible microchips into the rinds of their cheese to fight counterfeiting, unique IDs that will also combat redistribution through theft.—Olivia Potts, Longreads, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for rind
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German rinda bark, and probably to Old English rendan to rend
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of rind was
before the 12th century