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Definition of Key fruit
1. Noun. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Key Fruit
Literary usage of Key fruit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"The ash and elm are single ones, but the maple is double and has two wings, as
shown in the picture. Key-fruit Single -Ash. All these kinds of fruits, ..."
2. Elements of Biology: A Practical Text-book Correlating Botany, Zoology, and by George William Hunter (1907)
"It is the key fruit or samara. In this key fruit of maple. Grain; spikes of
ripened flowers. case the pericarp has lengthened into a long wing. ..."
3. General Botany for Universities and Colleges by Hiram Delos Densmore (1920)
"... or key fruit (elm) (two carpels) (four carpels) Samara, or key fruit (maple)
Drupe, or stone fruit (peach) FIG. 221. Different kinds of fruits Pome ..."
4. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"... is called the CUPULE. In the Chestnut the cupule forms the bur ; in the Hazel,
a leafy husk. 365. A Samara, or Key-fruit, is either a nut or an ..."
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