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Accessory fruit

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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.
fruitnounThe 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-setnounAlternative 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.
fruiternounAny 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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