Meaning

1 senses
  1. A fruit that develops from the fusion of more than one carpel within a single flower, as for instance, a raspberry.

    Sammelfrucht

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

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Strawberries and raspberries are both examples of an aggregate fruit.

    ruКлубника и малина — примеры сборных плодов.

    deErdbeeren und Himbeeren sind beides Beispiele für Sammelfrüchte.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
a fruit that develops from the fusion of more than one carpel within a single flower, as for instance, a raspberry:

Forms

plural: aggregate fruits
Singularaggregate fruit
Pluralaggregate fruits

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple:multiple fruitsyncarp

Word family

2 related words

See also

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