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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fruit, such as a strawberry, that contains tissue not derived from a ripened ovary.

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  • noun botany A plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers

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  • noun a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part

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