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| Accessory fruit | A type of fleshy fruit that includes some other part of the flower in addition to that which is derived from the ovary. Accessory fruits are usually indehiscent. Examples of this type of fruit are apples, figs, and strawberries. |  |
| Aggregate fruit | A fruit formed by the coalescence of carpels that were distinct (apocarpous) in flower; e.g., |
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| Campanulate fruit | Broadly bell-shaped fruit with a wide mouth. |  |
| Cylindrical fruit | A fruit that is much longer than it is broad. |  |
| Cylindrical fruit | A fruit that is much longer than it is broad. |  |
| Dehiscent fruit | Referring to fruits that open via an operculum (= lid like in a teapot) at maturity. |  |
| Fruit | In the flowering plants, the ripened ovary or the seed-bearing organ of a plant. | |
| Fruit oxidizes bluish-green | When the fruit is bruised, the color at the point of the bruise turns bluish-green. |  |
| Fruit white lenticellate | A pericarp with the outer surface with scattered white dots. |  |
| Functionally indehiscent fruit | A circumscissile fruit that opens via an operculum (lid) but the seeds are trapped inside because the size of the opening is smaller than the size of the seeds. |  |
| Indehiscent fruit | Referring to a fruit that does not open via an operculum. |  |
| Multiple fruit | A fruit formed from the ovaries of more than one flower, e.g., the pineapple fruit which consists of the fusion of the ovaries of the flowers of an inflorescence as the fruits develop. | .thumb.jpg) |
| Non-cylindrical fruit | A fruit that is as long as broad or is shorter than broad. |  |
| Non-cylindrical fruit | A fruit that is as long as broad or is shorter than broad. | |
| Secondarily indehiscent fruit | Fruits that are hypothesized to have evolved indehiscent fruits from ancestors with dehiscent fruits. | |
| Truncate fruit base | An ovary or a fruit which abruptly turns inward from the calycine rim to the pedicel/hypanthium. Same as infracalycine zone truncate. |  |
| Winged fruit | Referring to fruits that either have have wings along their length that do not aid in wind dispersal or to fruits that have well-developed wings that aid in wind dispersal. Note that both winged fruits and winged seeds aid in wind dispersal. |  |