berry

A fleshy fruit with seeds and flesh arising from a single ovary (which may have one or more subdivisions, or carpels), for instance elder, grape, gooseberry, tomato and Citrus spp. In popular usage, any small fleshy fruit is called a berry.

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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