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Aggregate fruit logo #21000 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...
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aggregate fruit logo #21820a cluster of fruits formed from the free carpels of one flower, e.g. blackberry; cf. multiple fruit.
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aggregate fruit logo #21003(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 ... ...
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aggregate fruit logo #20973A cluster of fruits formed from the free carpels of one flower. ... Compare: syncarp. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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Aggregate fruit

Aggregate fruit logo #22487One formed by the coherence of pistils that were distinct in the flower, as blackberry.
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aggregate fruit logo #20400[n] - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry
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aggregate fruit logo #20974multiple fruit noun fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
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