1. fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple; [syn: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aggregate fruit
n 1: fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes
derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle:
e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple [syn: aggregate
fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp]