true fruit

American  

noun

1. simple fruit.

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true fruit Scientific  

1. A fruit in which all tissues are derived from a ripened ovary and its contents.

2. See more at fruit Compare accessory fruit

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Example Sentences

The true fruit is round, or oval, or elongated, sometimes pear-shaped, and with flattened sides, due to mutual lateral pressure.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

There were others who believed that the Christian moral system must remain, because it had commended itself to man's nature as the highest and best and was the true fruit of evolutionary progress.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

That is, I have planted the seed that will produce the true fruit, and it is for others only to cultivate and nourish what I have planted.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by Reber, George

The outer succulent part is the swollen receptacle, the horny core being the true fruit developed from the usually five carpels and enclosing the seeds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate?

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Kleiser, Grenville