- the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- the fleshy fruit of the apple and related plants, consisting of an enlarged receptacle enclosing the ovary and seeds
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