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English > 1 sense of the expression multiple fruit:
NOUNplantmultiple fruit, aggregate fruit, syncarpfruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle
English > multiple fruit: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningfruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple.
Synonymsaggregate fruit, syncarp
NarrowersyconiumThe fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
BroaderfruitThe ripened reproductive body of a seed plant