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  2. Fruit - Wikipedia

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    In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants ... Edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts.

  3. Fruit tree - Wikipedia

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    The scientific study and the cultivation of fruits is called pomology, which divides fruits into groups based on plant morphology and anatomy. Some of those groups are pome fruits, which include apples and pears, and stone fruits, which include peaches/nectarines, almonds, apricots, plums and cherries. [2]

  4. Apple - Wikipedia

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    The apple as a species has more than 100 alternative scientific names, or synonyms. [17] In modern times, Malus pumila and Malus domestica are the two main names in use. M. pumila is the older name, but M. domestica has become much more commonly used starting in the 21st century, especially in the western world.

  5. List of culinary fruits - Wikipedia

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    The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...

  6. Berry (botany) - Wikipedia

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    The fruit of citrus, such as the orange, kumquat and lemon, is a berry with a thick rind and a very juicy interior divided into segments by septa, that is given the special name "hesperidium". [11] A specialized term, pepo , is also used for fruits of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae , which are modified to have a hard outer rind, but are not ...

  7. Fig - Wikipedia

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    The fig fruit develops as a hollow, fleshy structure called the syconium that is lined internally with numerous unisexual flowers. The tiny flowers bloom inside this cup-like structure. Although commonly called a fruit, the syconium is botanically an infructescence, a type of multiple fruit. The small fig flowers and later small single-seeded ...

  8. Strawberry - Wikipedia

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    Botanical structure of a strawberry, compared to a peapod. The strawberry is a swollen receptacle, covered with many small achenes, the botanical fruits. [8] In culinary terms, a strawberry is an edible fruit. From a botanical point of view, it is not a berry but an aggregate accessory fruit, because the fleshy part is derived from the receptacle.

  9. Watermelon - Wikipedia

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    Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it is a highly cultivated fruit worldwide, with more than 1,000 varieties.