| NOUN | plant | bacca, simple fruit | an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp |
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| Meaning | An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry. | |
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| Synonym | simple fruit | |
| Broader | berry | A small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) |
| Spanish | bacca | |
| Catalan | bacca | |
| Adjectives | baccate, berrylike | resembling a berry |
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