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    MULTIPLE FRUIT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineappleplay

    Synonyms:

    aggregate fruit; multiple fruit; syncarp

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

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

    syconium (the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets)

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