simple fruit

Meanings

nounsimple fruit (plural simple fruits)

biologyA fruit that develops from either a single or compound ovary within a flower with a single pistil.

nounan indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape, tomato, cranberry

Similar

bacca

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Tagalog payak na bunga

payak na bungaa fruit that develops from either a single or compound ovary within a flower with a single pistil

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