fruit

     

The term fruit has many ifferent meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds— of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and the surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.

Trivia about fruit

  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Monkey River in Belize) A mainstay of the toucan's diet, it's also in the name of the cereal that it promotes
  • On the third day, God created grass, herbs & this, "whose seed is in itself"
  • It's the part of the cannonball tree that gives the tree its name