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Definitions of false fruit words

noun false fruit a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue. 1
noun false fruit a fruit derived from the separate carpels of one flower, the uniting of a cluster of flowers, or tissue other than the ovary; pseudocarp 0
noun false fruit (botany) A plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers. 0

before 1895

One of the 18% newest English words

First recorded in 1895-1900

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accessory fruit — a fruit having enlarged accessory structures in addition to those formed from the ovary, as the strawberry, in which the fleshy tissue is the enlarged receptacle and the true fruits are the small, dry achenes borne on its surface
pome — the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
pseudocarp — accessory fruit.