accessory fruit

accessory fruit

n.

A fruit, such as the pear or strawberry, that develops from a ripened ovary or ovaries but includes a significant portion derived from nonovarian tissue. Also called false fruit, pseudocarp.

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accessory fruit

A fruit, such as the pear or strawberry, that develops from a ripened ovary or ovaries but also has tissue derived from part of the plant outside the ovary. In pears and other pomes, the edible flesh is a swollen part of the stem, and the fruit is the seed-bearing core. In the strawberry, the receptacle is fleshy, and the fruits are achenes embedded in its surface. Also called false fruit, pseudocarp. Compare aggregate fruitmultiple fruitsimple fruit

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Noun

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accessory fruit - fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry pseudocarp fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant