true fruit
Americannoun
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A fruit in which all tissues are derived from a ripened ovary and its contents.
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See more at fruit Compare accessory fruit
Example Sentences
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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)
They open as nuts do, and then you will find a kernel inside which is the true fruit.’
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
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
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
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
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