Fruit vs. Utricle — What's the Difference?

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds.

A membranous sac contained within the labyrinth of the inner ear and connected with the semicircular canals.

The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.

A small bladderlike one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in an amaranth plant.

An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.

A small vestigial blind pouch of the prostate gland.

A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food

(biology) A small cell, sac, or bladder-like protuberance in an animal or plant:

The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.

(anatomy) The larger of the two fluid-filled cavities forming part of the membranous labyrinth in the vertebrate inner ear (the other being the saccule) and into which the semicircular canals open. It contains hair cells and otoliths which send signals to the brain concerning the orientation of the head.

A plant crop or product

(anatomy) prostatic utricle

Result; outcome

(botany) A dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit with thin membranous pericarp, similar to an achene and found in the beet and dock plants.

Offspring; progeny.

A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed.

A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.

A microscopic cell in the structure of an egg, animal, or plant.

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A small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of goosefoot.

To produce or cause to produce fruit.

A utriculus.

In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.

A small pouch into which the semicircular canals open

Specifically, a sweet and/or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit see next sense, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.}}

(botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:

The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

(attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; of living things producing or consuming fruit.

A homosexual man; an effeminate man.

(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

(informal) A crazy person.

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; - commonly used in the plural.

The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

To bear fruit.

The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

The consequence of some effort or action;

An amount of a product

Cause to bear fruit

Bear fruit;