Aggregate Fruit (Noun)
Meaning
Fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- A raspberry is a type of aggregate fruit, where multiple tiny fruitlets combine to form a single berry.
- Pineapple is often considered a syncarpous or aggregate fruit because it develops from the ovary of multiple flowers.
- Aggregate fruits like strawberries are composed of tiny fruits known as achenes that contain the seeds, and they come from the merging of several flowers.
- Many plants in the rose family, including the rose itself, produce aggregate fruits.
- An example of an aggregate fruit with hard seed-covered surfaces, rather than being pulpy like most others, is the sweetie strawberries plant that gets yellowy fleshiness of not commonly green surface..