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fruit 1. The mature ovary of a seed plant. 2. Sporangia; often applied to the sporophyte.

fruit harvester A basket made of wire with curved tips, fastened to a long handle, to catch fruit and pluck it from the ground.

fruit-dot A sorus.

fruiting dates The period of year when the fruit of a species may be expected to have ripened, ready to produce viable seeds.

fruiting spur On a fruit tree, a short twisted branch with rings around it, which flowers and produces fruit.

accessory fruit A fruit, or group of fruits derived from a singleflower, in which the conspicuous, fleshy portion develops from the receptacle and is shed with the true fruit(s) attached.

aggregate fruit Describes a fruit, such as a raspberry, which consists of a fused cluster of several fruits, each one formed from an individual ovary. See also: syncarp.

catapult fruits Those fruits that discharge their seeds forcefully; ballistic fruits.

multiple fruit One in which the carpels of several flowers join in a single fruit, like a fig, Ficus. This differs from an aggregate fruit which derives from the multiple carpels of a single flower, e.g., a raspberry, Rubus.

pericarp (syn. fruit wall) The wall of the matured ovary.

pseudocarp (syn. accessory fruit, syn. false fruit) A fruit, such as the strawberry or pear, that develops not only from the ripened ovary, or ovaries, but from nonovarian tissue as well.

simple fruit A fruit developed from a single ovary.

small fruits Those species which produce edible fruits, but do not grow on trees, e.g., strawberries and blueberries.

stone (alt. stone fruit) The single seed of a drupe, surrounded by a large, hard shell and covered by pulp.

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