aggregate fruit
- noun
- Specialized
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fruto agregado
- The raspberry, an aggregate fruit, contains multiple fused segments, each with its own seed.
Examples
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Unlike a simple fruit, an aggregate fruit develops from several ovaries in one flower.
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Blackberries are a type of aggregate fruit.
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A blackberry is an example of an aggregate fruit composed of many small drupelets.
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Raspberries are delicious aggregate fruits.
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Blackberries are an example of an aggregate fruit because they consist of many tiny individual drupelets.
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Raspberries, like blackberries, are classified as aggregate fruits due to their formation from multiple ovaries.
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An aggregate fruit can be seen in the way strawberries develop from multiple small sections on a single flower.
Synonyms
A fruit made of many small fruits joined together, like a raspberry or pineapple
Antonyms
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A fruit that grows from one part of a flower with seeds inside, like a grape
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A food that forms when many flowers grow together, like a pineapple or mulberry
How Fused
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'aggregate' (composed of many parts) + 'fruit' yields a fruit made of many small parts or units. Although 'aggregate' can be technical in botany, a learner who knows both constituents can infer the intended clustered/multiple-part nature of the fruit.
Etymology
The noun aggregate fruit gives a clear image: many small fruits joined into one cluster, like beads stuck together. The word aggregate here means 'many parts' and fruit is the result, so the name shows it is a fruit made from several joined pieces.
