collective fruit
English
Noun
collective fruit (plural collective fruits)
- (botany) Any fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for collective fruit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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