HyperDic: aggregate_fruit

English > 1 sense of the expression *aggregate fruit*:
NOUN	plant	aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp	fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle

English > *aggregate fruit*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple.
Synonyms	multiple fruit, syncarp
Narrower	syconium	The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Broader	fruit	The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant