Fruit
A fruit is a mature flowering-plant ovary, usually formed after fertilization, that encloses seeds and often aids their dispersal.
Flower: The reproductive structure of flowering plants, containing organs that produce gametes and develop into seeds and fruits. Fruits develop from the ovary within this reproductive structure.
Pericarp: The wall of a fruit, derived from the ovary wall and often differentiated into layers. Its layers form much of the fruit's protective or fleshy tissue.
Vegetable: A culinary category for edible plant parts, including leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and some botanical fruits. Foods called vegetables in cooking may be fruits by botanical structure.
Seed dispersal: The movement of seeds away from their parent plant, enabling colonization of new sites. Fruits facilitate dispersal by attracting animals or traveling by wind and water.
Ovary (botany): The flower structure containing one or more ovules that can develop into seeds after fertilization. Its mature wall becomes the fruit wall.
Auxin: A plant hormone that regulates growth and development, including cell expansion and fruit formation. Auxin helps initiate and regulate growth of developing fruit.
Berry: A simple fleshy fruit that develops from one ovary and usually has seeds embedded in its pulp. Botanical berries include foods that culinary usage does not call berries.
Horticulture: The cultivation and management of garden plants, including fruit crops and ornamental plants. Fruit production is a major concern in horticultural practice.
Ovule: A structure inside a plant ovary that contains the female gametophyte and can develop into a seed after fertilization. Ovules inside the ovary become the seeds enclosed by a fruit.
Gibberellin: A class of plant hormones that promotes growth and influences seed germination, flowering, and fruit development. Gibberellins can promote fruit growth, including development without fertilization.