Synonyms

false fruit

British

noun

another name for pseudocarp

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false fruit Scientific

/ fôls /

See accessory fruit
See pome

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false fruit

It is that false fruit which attracts the outer senses, the bait of the serpent in the beginning of the world.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

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