accessory fruit
Noun

accessory fruit (plural accessory fruits)

  1. (botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: faux-fruit
  • Portuguese: pseudofruto
  • Spanish: infrutescencia



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