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FALSE FRUIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does false fruit mean?
• FALSE FRUIT (noun)
The noun FALSE FRUIT has 1 sense:
1. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Familiarity information: FALSE FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
false fruit; pome
Hypernyms ("false fruit" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false fruit"):
apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)
pear (sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties)
quince (aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves)
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