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  2. Berry (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a grape berry, showing the pericarp and its layers Coffee cherries (Coffea arabica) – described as drupes or berries. In botanical language, a berry is a simple fruit having seeds and fleshy pulp (the pericarp) produced from the ovary of a single flower. The ovary can be inferior or superior.

  3. Berry - Wikipedia

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    The botanical definition includes many fruits that are not commonly known or referred to as berries, [6] such as grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, bananas, and chili peppers. Fruits commonly considered berries but excluded by the botanical definition include strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries , which are aggregate fruits , and ...

  4. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology .

  5. Phytogeography - Wikipedia

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    Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on the earth's surface. [1]

  6. Drupe - Wikipedia

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    Thus, some sources describe the fruit of species from the genus Persea, which includes the avocado, as a drupe, [4] others describe avocado fruit as a berry. [5] One definition of berry requires the endocarp to be less than 2 mm (3 ⁄ 32 in) thick, other fruits with a stony endocarp being drupes. [6]

  7. Fruit - Wikipedia

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    Examples include: Tomato – in culinary terms, the tomato is regarded as a vegetable, but it is botanically classified as a fruit and a berry. [21] Banana – the fruit has been described as a "leathery berry". [22] In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence.

  8. The Most Surprising Fruits Commonly Mistaken for Vegetables - AOL

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    Merriam-Webster defines "fruit" as "the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant." Most often, these seed plants are sweet and enjoyed as dessert (think berries and melons), but some ...

  9. Rubus chamaemorus - Wikipedia

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    Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.Its English common names include cloudberry, [2] Nordic berry, bakeapple (in Newfoundland and Labrador), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska – not to be confused with salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis), [3] and averin or evron (in Scotland).