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multiple fruit

DEFINITIONS OF: multiple fruit

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

Synonyms:
aggregate fruit, syncarp
Types:
syconium
the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Type of:
fruit
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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