💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Accessory fruit"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pseudocarpnoun | (botany) An accessory fruit. |
| false fruitnoun | (botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but some adjacent tissue. |
| pseudofruitnoun | (botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue. |
| aggregate fruitnoun | (botany) A fruit that develops from the fusion of more than one carpel within a single flower, as for instance, a raspberry. |
| anthocarpnoun | (botany) A fruit resulting from many flowers, such as the pineapple; a fruit of which the perianth or the torus forms part. |
| simple fruitnoun | (botany) A fruit that develops from either a single or compound ovary within a flower with a single pistil. |
| fruitnoun | The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. |
| fruitcasenoun | (botany) Synonym of exocarp. |
| sorosisnoun | (botany) Any multiple fruit, usually fleshy, that is derived from the multiple ovaries in an infructescence. Such a structure typically includes remnants of floral tissues such as the perianth. Examples include the mulberry and pineapple. |
| fruit-setnoun | Alternative form of fruitset. [(biology) A set of fruits from the same organism.] |
| hypocarpiumnoun | (botany) An enlarged fleshy structure that forms below the fruit, from the receptacle or hypanthium. |
| fruitsetnoun | (biology, horticulture) The "setting" (beginning of growing) of fruit, resulting from successful pollination. |
| fruiternoun | Any organism that fruits. |
| collective fruitnoun | (botany) Any fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple. |
| accessory pigmentnoun | (botany) Any non-chlorophyll pigment present in a chloroplast that helps to absorb light but sends all the energy to a chlorophyll. |
| bracteolenoun | (botany) A small leaf of leaf-like structure directly subtending a flower or inflorescence whose stalk itself is subtended by a bract. |
| syncarpnoun | (botany) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia. |
| pomenoun | (botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. |
| drupeletnoun | (botany) One of the small drupe-like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruit such as blackberries or raspberries. |
| etaerionoun | (botany) An aggregate fruit comprised of achenes, drupelets, follicles, or berries. |
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