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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fruit, such as a fig, mulberry, or pineapple, derived from the ovaries of several flowers that coalesce into a single structure.

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  • noun botany A fruit that develops from the fusion of carpels from more than one flower, as for instance, a pineapple.

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  • noun fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple

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