An aggregate fruit or etaerio or etario is a fruit that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separate in a single flower. In contrast, a simple fruit develops from one ovary. In languages other than English, the meanings of aggregate and multiple fruit are reversed, so that aggregate fruits merge several flowers. The differences i... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate_fruit
(from the article `fruit`) ...pericarp becomes dry at maturity. Fleshy fruits include (1) the berries, such as tomatoes, oranges, and cherries, in which the entire pericarp and ... Simple fruits develop from a single carpel or from a compound ovary. Aggregate fruits consist of several separate carpels of one apocarpous gynoecium ... ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/28
A cluster of fruits formed from the free carpels of one flower. ... Compare: syncarp. ... (09 Oct 1997) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
multiple fruitnoun fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974