Fruit

in botany, a term applied to the ripened ovary and its contents, quite regardle of their being eatable or otherwise. The most common forms of fruit are, the pomum or apple, the drupe or peach, and plum; the glans, as the acorn; the pineapple, the fruit of which is a scaly berry, surmounted by a crown of spinous leaves. This fruit may be considered one of the | finest in the world. The legume, or pea; the siliqua, or Pet. as in the mustard, and which differs from the legume chiefly in this, that the chamber containing the seeds is divided; the capsule, as in the poppy, larkspur, etc.; and the bacca, or common currant, gooseberry, etc. Besides these leading and distinctive forms of fruit, there are numerous minor variations in their external forms and internal structures.