collective fruit

noun

Any fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple.

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Meanings

nouncollective fruit (plural collective fruits)

plural collective fruits

  1. biologyAny fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple.

    While the true aggregate fruit is produced by the ovaria of a single flower, a collective fruit, if aggregate, is produced by the ovaria of many flowers

    1832, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
multiple fruit
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