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    FALSE FRUIT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy partplay

    Synonyms:

    false fruit; pome

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("false fruit" is a kind of...):

    fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false fruit"):

    apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)

    pear (sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties)

    quince (aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves)

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