accessory fruit in a sentence

Technically, the strawberry is an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the ovaries.
Like the closely related cashew, the fruit is composed of two parts, a reddish-orange accessory fruit and a black drupe that grows at the end.
The fruits of the Juglandaceae are often confused with drupes but are actually accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an Carya ), it is a tryma.
The accessory fruit is edible and sweet when ripe, but the black fruit is toxic and produces a severe allergic reaction if it is consumed or its resin comes in contact with the skin.
The terms " false fruit ", " spurious fruit ", and " pseudocarp " are older terms for accessory fruit that have been criticized as " inapt ", and are not used by some botanists today.

In english-speaking WP I found an article on accessory fruits and via dictionary I found the terms " false fruit " or " spurious fruit "; to add to the confusion I found " pericarps " and " epigynous berries ".
The tribe consists exclusively of shrubs and small trees characterised by a pome, a type of accessory fruit that does not occur in other Rosaceae, and by a basal haploid chromosome count of 17 ( instead of 7, 8, 9, or 15 as in the other Rosaceae ).
After a quick discussion with native speakers on IRC I guess it's all the same, so I linked " de : Scheinfrucht " to " accessory fruit " and mentioned " false fruit " and " spurious fruit " and even " epigynous fruit " as alternative terms there and created redirects.
In its traditional circumscription this subfamily consisted exclusively of shrubs and small trees characterised by a pome, a type of accessory fruit that does not occur in other Rosaceae, and by a basal haploid chromosome count of 17 ( instead of 7, 8, or 9 as in the other Rosaceae ), involving approximately 28 genera with approximately 1100 species worldwide, with most species occurring in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

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