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.
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Aggregate fruit - Fruit that results from a single flower with many separate carpels. An example is the blackberry.
Aggregate fruit A fruit formed by the coherence or the connation of pistils that were distinct in the flower.
Raspberries, a close relative to the strawberry, are an aggregate fruit consisting of a large number of drupelets on a receptacle. As ripe berries are picked, the receptacle is left on the plant.
-- , or a fruit composed of many carpels like raspberries (an "aggregate fruit").
In gardening, it may be used in reference to a type of gravel or coarse sand.
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(Gr. syn, together; karpos, fruit) a multiple or aggregate fruit derived from numerous separate ovaries of a single flower; a collective unit, as a blackberry. syntepalous search for term- flowers in which the tepals are fused.
 See also: Aggregate, Plant, Ovary, Leaf, Indehiscent
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