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A fruit, such as the pear or strawberry, that develops from a ripened ovary or ovaries but includes a significant portion derived from nonovarian tissue. Also called false fruit, pseudocarp.


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry
  Synonym: pseudocarp


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Strawberry: the 'seeds' (achenes) are the real fruit.

An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, or pseudocarp is a fruit in which some or all of the flesh is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue. A fig is a type of accessory fruit called a syconium. Pomes, such as apples and pears, are also accessory fruits, with the core being the true fruit.[1]

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  1. ^ Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary entries for syconium, accessory fruit, core, and strawberry, Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2006

 
 
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