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| Arrangement of ovules within the ovary |
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| A fleshy fruit developing from a single pistil, with several or many seeds, as the tomato. Sometimes applied to any fruit which is fleshy or pulpy throughout. eg. lacking a pit core |
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| A fleshy, indehiscent fruit derived from an inferior, compound ovary, consisting of a modified floral tube surrounding a core, as in an apple. |
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| Ovules attached to the central axis of an ovary with two or more lucules (area containing the ovules) |
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| A fleshy, indehiscent, many-seeded fruit with a tough rind, such as a melon or a cucumber |
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| Ovules attached to the walls of the ovary. |
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| A fleshy fruit developing from a succulent receptacle rather than the pistil. The ripened ovaries are small achenes on the surface of the receptacle, as in the strawberry. |
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| Usually applied to a cluster or group of small fleshy fruits originating from a numbe of separate pisitls in a single flower, as in the clustered drupelets of the raspberry. |
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| A fruit formed from several separate flowers crowded on a single axis, as a mulberry or pineapple. |
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| The fruit of a fig, consisting of an entire ripened inflorescence with a hollow, inverted receptacle bearing flowers internally. |
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| A fleshy, indehiscent fruit with a stony endocarp surrounding a usually single seed, as in a peach or cherry |
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| A hard, dry, indehiscent fruit, usually with a single seed. |
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| A small, dry, indehiscent fruit with a single locule and a single seed, and with the seed attached to the ovary wall at a single point, as in the sunflower. |
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| A dry, indehiscent, winged fruit |
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| A dry, indehiscent fruit which splits into separate one-seeded segments (carpels) at maturity |
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| A dry, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit with the seed coat fused to the pericarp, as in the fruits of the grass family; a grain |
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| A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of a single carpel and opening along a single side, as a milkweed pod. |
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| A dry, dehiscent fruit derived from a single carpel and usually opening along two lines of dehiscence, as a pea pod. |
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| A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel. |
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| A capsule dehiscing through the locules of a fruit rather than through the septa. |
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| A capsule dehiscing through the septa and between the locules |
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| Ovules attached to a free-standing column in the center of a unilocular ovary. |
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| Ovules positioned at the base of a single loculed ovary |
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| A dry, dehiscent fruit of the Cruciferae, typically more than twice as long as wide, with two valves separating from the persistent placentae and septum (replum) |
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| A dry, dehiscent fruit of the Cruciferae, typically less than twice as long as wide, with two valves separating from the persistent placentae and septum (replum) |
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| A capsule opening by pores, as in a poppy |
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| A capsule dehiscing along a transverse circular line, so that the top separates like a lid |
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