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Understanding Fruits in Botany

Fruits are the seed-bearing structures that form from flowering plants' ovaries after flowering. They have evolved to aid in seed dispersal, forming symbiotic relationships with humans and animals who eat and spread the seeds. Edible fruits make up a substantial part of global agriculture and some, like apples and pomegranates, have taken on cultural meaning. While commonly "fruit" refers to sweet seed-associated structures that are eaten raw, botanically it also includes some unexpected structures like bean pods, corn, tomatoes, and wheat grains.

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Understanding Fruits in Botany

Fruits are the seed-bearing structures that form from flowering plants' ovaries after flowering. They have evolved to aid in seed dispersal, forming symbiotic relationships with humans and animals who eat and spread the seeds. Edible fruits make up a substantial part of global agriculture and some, like apples and pomegranates, have taken on cultural meaning. While commonly "fruit" refers to sweet seed-associated structures that are eaten raw, botanically it also includes some unexpected structures like bean pods, corn, tomatoes, and wheat grains.

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n botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after

flowering.

Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate seeds. Edible fruits, in particular, have propagated with the movements of humans and
animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed dispersal and nutrition; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on
fruits as a source of food.[1] Accordingly, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and
the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.

In common language usage, "fruit" normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet or sour, and edible in the raw
state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. On the other hand, in botanical usage, "fruit" includes many
structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.[2][3] The section of a fungusthat
produces spores is also called a fruiting body.[

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