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AGGREGATE FRUIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aggregate fruit mean?
• AGGREGATE FRUIT (noun)
The noun AGGREGATE FRUIT has 1 sense:
1. fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
Familiarity information: AGGREGATE FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
aggregate fruit; multiple fruit; syncarp
Hypernyms ("aggregate fruit" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aggregate fruit"):
syconium (the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets)
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