Fruits That Start With D

5 fruits Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 5 fruits that start with D, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

D gives five fruits, and three of them are well known: date, durian and dragon fruit. Dates grow on palm trees and have a single long seed. Dragon fruit is a pink or yellow cactus fruit with white speckled flesh.

Durian is famous for its huge size and its strong smell, which makes it a memorable answer. Damson is a dark purple plum, and dewberry looks a lot like a blackberry. For young children, date is the shortest and simplest D fruit to say and spell.

Fruits starting with D: 5
Best known: date, durian
Longest name: dragon fruit

All fruits that start with D

#	Name	What it is
1	damson	dark purple plum of the damson tree
2	date	sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
3	dewberry	blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes
4	dragon fruit	pink or yellow cactus fruit with white speckled flesh
5	durian	huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'

Questions people ask

How many fruits start with D?

This list has 5 fruits starting with D, from well-known ones like date, durian, dragon fruit to rarer kinds.

What fruits start with D?

Well-known examples are date, durian, dragon fruit.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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