An accessory fruit (sometimes called false fruit, spurious fruit, pseudofruit, or pseudocarp) is a fruit in which some of the flesh is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel. Examples of accessory tissue are the receptacle of the strawberry, pineapple, common fig, or mulberry, and the calyx of Gaultheria pr...
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(from the article `angiosperm`) ...(e.g., raspberries where each unit is a single carpel). Multiple fruits consist of the gynoecia of more than one flower and represent a whole ...
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<plant biology> A fruit, or group of fruits derived from one flower, in which the conspicuous, fleshy portion develops from the receptacle and is shed with the true fruit attached. ... (15 Jan 1998) ...
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Fruit-like body composed of pericarp and other structure or structures seemingly a part of it, but not originally united with it, as wintergreen berry.
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n] - fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary
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pseudocarp noun fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry
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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
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