| 单词 | accessory fruit |
| 释义 | accessory fruitSEE SYNONYMS FOR accessory fruit ON THESAURUS.COM 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 fruitFirst recorded in 1895–1900 Words nearby accessory fruitaccessory adrenal, accessory apartment, accessory bud, accessory cell, accessory cephalic vein, accessory fruit, accessory gland, accessory hemiazygos vein, accessory ligament, accessory mineral, accessory nerve Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for accessory fruitaccessory fruit nounanother 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 fruitaccessory 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. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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