collective fruit

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collective fruit (plural collective fruits)

  1. (botany) Any fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple.
    • 1832, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany:
      While the true aggregate fruit is produced by the ovaria of a single flower, a collective fruit, if aggregate, is produced by the ovaria of many flowers

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