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

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

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

The coverings surrounding them complete the true fruit.

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

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