accessory fruit

1. 1.

   fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry

   Synonymspseudocarp

   Broaderfruit

Questions about accessory fruit

What does accessory fruit mean?

accessory fruit means "fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry".

What is another word for accessory fruit?

Close synonyms include pseudocarp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accessory fruit a common word?

accessory fruit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.