accessory fruit

English

Noun

accessory fruit (plural accessory fruits)

(botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry.

Synonyms

Translations

A fruit with tissue not derived from ovary

Finnish: epähedelmä (fi)
French: faux-fruit (fr) m
Icelandic: skinaldin n

Portuguese: pseudofruto m
Spanish: infrutescencia f
Tagalog: hugpunging bunga

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