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aggregate fruit
(redirected from Compound fruit)

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aggregate fruit [′ag·rə·gət ′früt]
(botany)
A type of fruit composed of a number of small fruitlets all derived from the ovaries of a single flower.


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Among a group of closely related dogwoods, all the Asian species have a compound fruit that looks like a fat strawberry, while all the species native to the Western Hemisphere have bunches of smaller, olive-type fruits.
 
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