MULTIPLE FRUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multiple fruit mean? 

• MULTIPLE FRUIT (noun)
  The noun MULTIPLE 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: MULTIPLE FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTIPLE FRUIT (noun)

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 ("multiple fruit" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multiple fruit"):

syconium (the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets)

 Context examples 

The fruit is a multiple fruit that has a pungent odor when ripening, and is hence also known as cheese fruit or even vomit fruit.

(Morinda citrifolia, NCI Thesaurus)