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BACCA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
Synonyms:
bacca; simple fruit
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bacca" is a kind of...):
berry (a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry))