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aggregate fruit
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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.

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
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Noun1.aggregate fruitaggregate fruit - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
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

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These blossoms are followed by ovoid aggregate fruits, connected clusters of tiny fruits each containing one seed, that ripen from the middle to the end of summer.
Everyone loves berries - be they strawberries, raspberries or blackberries - even if, to a botanist, what often pass for berries are not berries at all, but aggregate fruits.
 
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