collective fruit

English

Noun

collective fruit (plural collective fruits)

1. (botany) Any fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple.
   • 1832, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany:

     While the true aggregate fruit is produced by the ovaria of a single flower, a collective fruit, if aggregate, is produced by the ovaria of many flowers

References

• “collective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.