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Fruit Bat , fruit bat • n. a bat (family Pteropodidae) with a long snout and large eyes, feeding chiefly on fruit or nectar and found mainly in the Old World tro… Achene , achene A dry indehiscent fruit formed from a single carpel and containing a single seed. An example is the feathery achene of clematis. Variants of t… Fruit , fruit, matured ovary of the pistil of a flower, containing the seed. After the egg nucleus, or ovum, has been fertilized (see fertilization) and the… Fruits , Fruits
The fruit is the mature ovary and its associated parts. This unique covering of the seeds of flowering plants gives this group of plants their… Passion fruit , passion fruit •acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot,… Fovea , fovea (pl. foveae)
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