aggregate fruit

Scientific  

/ ăg′rĭ-gĭt /

1. A fruit, such as a raspberry or a strawberry, that consists of multiple ripened ovaries of a single flower, borne together on a common receptacle.

2. Compare accessory fruit multiple fruit simple fruit

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Example Sentences

While their name implies they are berries, mulberries, blackberries, and raspberries are actually aggregate fruits in the drupe or stone fruit family.

From Salon

Like raspberries and blackberries, mulberries are aggregate fruit clusters, but without the tartness.

From New York Times

The inconspicuous flower spikes are succeeded by fleshy aggregate fruits like a blackberry, sweet, juicy, dark purple or red, each individual fruit single-seeded.

From Project Gutenberg

They are caused by aggregate actions, and so are called aggregate fruits.

From Project Gutenberg