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faux-fruit

French, noun/fo.fʁɥi/

faux-fruit is a French masculine noun meaning “pseudofruit; accessory fruit (a fruit with tissue not derived from ovary)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Résultat, après la fécondation, de la transformation des induvies d’une inflorescence”.

What does faux-fruit mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepseudofruit; accessory fruit (a fruit with tissue not derived from ovary)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Résultat, après la fécondation, de la transformation des induvies d’une inflorescence. 2. Tout comestible ressemblant à un fruit sans en être un au sens biologique, c’est-à-dire l’organe végétal protégeant la graine, succédant à la fleur par transformation du pistil chez les angiospermes.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of faux-fruit

  • faux-fruits plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce faux-fruit?

  • /fo.fʁɥi/
  • \fo.fʁɥi\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.