false fruit

false fruit

n. A fruit, such as a strawberry, that contains tissue not derived from a ripened ovary.

false fruit

n (Botany) another name for pseudocarp

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false fruit - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy partpomeapple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish fleshpear - sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varietiesquince - aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preservesfruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant