Aggregate fruit

Aggregate fruit

Usually applied to a cluster or group of small fleshy fruits originating from a number of separate pistils in a single flower, as in the clustered drupelets of the raspberry.

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aggregate fruit

Biology; Botany

a cluster of fruits formed from the free carpels of one flower, e.g. blackberry; cf. multiple fruit.

aggregate fruit

Plants; Botany

A cluster of fruits formed from the free carpels of one flower. Cf. Syncarp.

aggregate fruit

Garden; Gardening

Describes a fruit, such as a raspberry, which consists of a fused cluster of several fruits, each one formed from an individual ovary.

aggregate fruit

Plants; Plants

Usually applied to a cluster or group of small fleshy fruits originating from a number of separate pistils in a single flower, as in the clustered drupelets of the raspberry.

aggregate fruit

Plants; Horticulture

A fruit formed by the coherence or the connation of pistils that were distinct in the flower.

fruit

Biology; Cell biology

A ripened ovary wall produced from a flower.

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