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An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, epigynous fruit, syconium or pseudocarp is a fruit where the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.
Some examples include cashews and figs.
The term includes false berries (e.g. the strawberry).
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