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Bot.a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue. Also called false fruit, pseudocarp.[1895-1900]
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accessory fruit — noun fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry • Syn: ↑pseudocarp • Hypernyms: ↑fruit * * * noun : a fruit (as the apple, strawberry, or fig) of which a conspicuous portion consists of tissue… … Useful english dictionary
Accessory fruit — An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, epigynous fruit, syconium or pseudocarp is a fruit where the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.An example is the apple.Fact|date=August 2008 Other examples… … Wikipedia
accessory fruit — acces′sory fruit n. bot pln a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue Also called pseudocarp • Etymology: 1895–1900 … From formal English to slang
accessory fruit — noun Date: circa 1900 a fruit (as the apple) of which a conspicuous part consists of tissue other than that of the ripened ovary … New Collegiate Dictionary
accessory fruit — noun A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry … Wiktionary
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fruit — fruitlike, adj. /frooht/, n., pl. fruits, (esp. collectively) fruit, v. n. 1. any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals. 2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or… … Universalium
fruit — [[t]frut[/t]] n. pl. fruits, (esp. collectively)fruit, n. 1) bot the edible part of a plant developed from a flower and containing one or more seeds with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana 2) bot the developed ovary of a… … From formal English to slang
