aggregate fruit

aggregate fruit

n.

A fruit, such as the raspberry, consisting of many individual small fruits derived from separate ovaries within a single flower, borne together on a common receptacle.

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aggregate fruit  (gr-gt)

A fruit, such as a raspberry or a strawberry, that consists of multiple ripened ovaries of a single flower, borne together on a common receptacle. Compare accessory fruitmultiple fruitsimple fruit

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

aggregate fruit - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple multiple fruit, syncarp fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant syconium - the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets