fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plantedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh juniper berry - berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper May apple - edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant achene - small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall gourd - any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds prairie gourd - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant acorn - fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base olive - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil marasca - small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made hagberry - small cherry much liked by birds rowanberry - decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree fruitlet - a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit seed - a small hard fruit berry - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple drupe, stone fruit - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube false fruit, pome - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part seedpod, pod - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant pyxidium, pyxis - fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released cubeb - spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes schizocarp - a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed |