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

Its true fruit takes time to flower and swell and come to ripeness and sweetness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

The coverings surrounding them complete the true fruit.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education

What we deem the fruit of the fig is, it will be remembered, only the husk, the apparent seeds being the true fruit and—before ripening—the blossom.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

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