simple fruit

1. 1.

   an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry

   Synonymsbacca

   Broaderberry

Questions about simple fruit

What does simple fruit mean?

simple fruit means "an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry".

What is another word for simple fruit?

Close synonyms include bacca. 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 simple fruit a common word?

simple 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.