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Syconium
Plants; Botany

A multiple fruit with a hollow centre, e.g. In ficus (fig).

Monocotyledon
Plants; Botany

A flowering plant whose embryo has only one cotyledon (seed leaf). Cf. Dicotyledon.

Dicotyledon
Plants; Botany

A flowering plant whose embryo has two (rarely more) cotyledons (seed leaves). Cf. Monocotyledon.

Grain
Plants; Botany

A fruit characteristic of grasses (= caryopsis); pollen grain, a microspore of a seed plant, or the partially developed gametophyte formed from it.

Legume
Plants; Botany

A fruit characteristic of the families Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae and Fabaceae, formed from one carpel and either dehiscent along both sides, or indehiscent; in particular, an edible crop species in ...

Berry
Plants; Botany

A fleshy or pulpy indehiscent fruit with the seed(s) embedded in the fleshy tissue of the pericarp. Cf. Drupe, pyrene.

Corm
Plants; Botany

A fleshy, swollen stem base, usually underground, in which food reserves are stored between growing seasons.

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