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Definition of False fruit
1. Noun. A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part.
Definition of False fruit
1. Noun. (botany) A plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Fruit
Literary usage of False fruit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"Example: the receptacle of the strawberry becomes fleshy and apparently represents
the main axis of the false fruit; it is also an aggregate fruit, ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick, Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies (1897)
"... according to the word of the prophet,2 "Ye have eaten false fruit," and they
have false fruit,—"Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn ..."
3. The Perfect Way: Or, The Finding of Christ by Anna Bonus Kingsford, Edward Maitland (1890)
"It is that false Fruit which attracts the outer Senses, the Bait of the Serpent
in the ... And their Sin, and the Taint begotten of that false Fruit, ..."
4. "Clothed with the Sun": Being the Book of the Illuminations of Anna (Bonus by Anna Bonus Kingsford (1889)
"It is that false Fruit which attracts the outer Senses, the Bait of the Serpent
in the ... And their Sin, and the Taint begotten of that false Fruit, ..."
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