False Fruit (Noun)
Meaning
A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The pomegranate is not a false fruit, it's a leathery rind and a berry, but other fruits can be classified as a false fruit.
- Simple fruits and false fruits are types of fleshy fruits or the accessory fruits, as they are often called, resembling the pears and apples in appearance and structure.
- Apples are actually a type of false fruit because parts other than the ovary are fleshy and produce part of the edible flesh.
- This fruit is often referred to as an accessory fruit or a false fruit, which the edible fleshy part develops mainly from the receptacle that connects a flower to the stem.
- The fruit's seeds lie within a tough, inedible core that's encased in the false fruit, or accessory fruit, a juicy pulp and outer skin that people love to eat.