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单词 accessory fruit
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accessory fruit

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noun Botany.

a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue.
Also called false fruit, pseudocarp.

Origin of accessory fruit

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby accessory fruit

accessory adrenal, accessory apartment, accessory bud, accessory cell, accessory cephalic vein, accessory fruit, accessory gland, accessory hemiazygos vein, accessory ligament, accessory mineral, accessory nerve
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British Dictionary definitions for accessory fruit

accessory fruit

noun

another name for pseudocarp
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for accessory fruit

accessory fruit

A fruit, such as the pear or strawberry, that develops from a ripened ovary or ovaries but also has tissue derived from part of the plant outside the ovary. In pears and other pomes, the edible flesh is a swollen part of the stem, and the fruit is the seed-bearing core. In the strawberry, the receptacle is fleshy, and the fruits are achenes embedded in its surface. Also called false fruit pseudocarp Compare aggregate fruit multiple fruit simple fruit.
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