FALSE FRUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false fruit mean? 

• FALSE FRUIT (noun)
  The noun FALSE FRUIT has 1 sense:

1. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part

  Familiarity information: FALSE FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE FRUIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

false fruit; pome

Hypernyms ("false fruit" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false fruit"):

apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)

pear (sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties)

quince (aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves)