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Fruit vs. Seed

The main difference between Fruit and Seed is that the Fruit is developed from the ovary after the fertilization, whereas Seed developed from the ovule.

Key Differences

Fruits are produced from the ovary, whereas seeds produced from ovules.
The outer layer of fruit is exocarp, whereas the outer layer of seed is testa.
Fruits are classified based on structure taste and seeds. Conversely, the seeds are classified based on their embryo.
Fruits are attractive and sweet, while the seeds are small and not sweet.
Samantha Walker
Jun 19, 2020
Fruits are ripened; on the flip side, seeds are not ripened.
Samantha Walker
Jun 19, 2020
Fruits are important for seed dispersion; on the other hand, seeds are important for the reproduction of the plant.
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Fruits have an important element, which is a seed, but the seed has an important element known as an embryo.
Harlon Moss
Jun 19, 2020
Apple, mango, orange, dry fruits are an example of fruits, whereas nuts, and legumes are an example of seeds.

Comparison Chart

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Fruits are formed by the ovary of the angiosperms and after the fertilization process.
The seed formed after the fertilization of an ovule, and it can form from both angiosperms and gymnosperms.

Botany

Developed from ovary
Developed from ovule

Function

Seed dispersion
Reproduction

Outer Layer

Exocarp
Testa
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Reproduction

Final product
Basic product
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Utilization

Used when fresh
Used to make oils, flour

Ripening Process

Fruits are ripened
No ripening process
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Jun 19, 2020

Structure

Attractive and sweet
Small
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Classification

According to structure, taste, and seeds
According to the morphology of the embryo
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Jun 19, 2020

Important Element

Seed
Embryo
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Jun 19, 2020
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Examples

Mango, Berries, Dry fruits and Orange
Legumes and Nuts
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Jun 19, 2020

Fruit and Seed Definitions

Fruit

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.

Seed

A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.

Fruit

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

Seed

A small dry fruit, spore, or other propagative plant part.

Fruit

A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food
Fruit for dessert.

Seed

Seeds considered as a group
A farmer buying seed.

Fruit

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

Seed

The seed-bearing stage of a plant
The grass is in seed.

Fruit

A plant crop or product
The fruits of the earth.

Seed

A larval shellfish or a hatchling fish
Released scallop seed in the bay.

Fruit

Result; outcome
The fruit of their labor.

Seed

An egg or cocoon of certain insects
Silkworm seed.

Fruit

Offspring; progeny.

Seed

A tiny bubble in a piece of glass.

Fruit

A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.

Seed

(Medicine) A form of a radioactive isotope that is used to localize and concentrate the amount of radiation administered to a body site, such as a tumor.

Fruit

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

Seed

A source or beginning; a germ
The seed of an idea.

Fruit

To produce or cause to produce fruit.

Seed

A small amount of material used to start a chemical reaction.

Fruit

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

Seed

A small crystal used to start a crystallization process.

Fruit

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.}}

Seed

A cell that disperses, especially a cancer cell that spreads from a primary tumor to another location in the body.

Fruit

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

Seed

Offspring; progeny.

Fruit

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

Seed

Family stock; ancestry.

Fruit

The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.

Seed

Sperm; semen.

Fruit

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

Seed

(Sports) A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank
A top seed.

Fruit

(attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; of living things producing or consuming fruit.
Fresh-squeezed fruit juice
A fruit salad
An artificial fruit flavor
A fruit tree

Seed

To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.

Fruit

A homosexual man; an effeminate man.

Seed

To plant (a crop, for example) as seeds in soil.

Fruit

(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

Seed

To remove the seeds from (fruit).

Fruit

(informal) A crazy person.

Seed

To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development
A bioreactor seeded with bacteria.

Fruit

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Seed

To disperse to, as cancer cells
Organs seeded by circulating tumor cells.

Fruit

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.
Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in thefruits thereof.

Seed

To disperse or transfer (cancer cells, for example)
A needle biopsy that seeded cancer cells into adjacent tissue.
Seed stem cells onto collagen gels.

Fruit

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

Seed

(Meteorology) To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or to produce precipitation.

Fruit

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

Seed

To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.

Fruit

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

Seed

To rank (a contestant) in this way.

Fruit

The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.

Seed

To help (a business, for example) in its early development.

Fruit

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.
The fruit of rashness.
What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.
They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
The fruits of this education became visible.

Seed

To sow seed.

Fruit

To bear fruit.

Seed

To pass into the seed-bearing stage.

Fruit

The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

Seed

(Medicine) To disperse and often multiply, as cancer cells.

Fruit

The consequence of some effort or action;
He lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies

Seed

Set aside for planting a new crop
Seed corn.
Seed potatoes.

Fruit

An amount of a product

Seed

Intended to help in early stages
Provided seed capital for a fledgling business.

Fruit

Cause to bear fruit

Seed

A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

Fruit

Bear fruit;
The trees fruited early this year

Seed

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

Seed

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

Seed

An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

Seed

(countable) A fragment of coral.

Seed

(uncountable) Semen.
A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

Seed

A precursor.
The seed of an idea
Which idea was the seed (idea)?

Seed

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

Seed

(sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.

Seed

The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
The rookie was a surprising top seed.

Seed

(cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)
If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

Seed

Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.

Seed

Offspring, descendants, progeny.
The seed of Abraham

Seed

Race; generation; birth.

Seed

A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Seed

(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

Seed

(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Seed

(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.

Seed

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

Seed

To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).

Seed

(intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
The tennis player seeded into the quarters.

Seed

(intransitive) To produce seed.

Seed

(intransitive) To grow to maturity.

Seed

To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Seed

(dialectal) see

Seed

A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.

Seed

The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.

Seed

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

Seed

The principle of production.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed,Which may the like in coming ages breed.

Seed

Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

Seed

Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held.

Seed

To sow seed.

Seed

To shed the seed.

Seed

To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.
Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs.

Seed

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

Seed

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes.

Seed

A small hard fruit

Seed

A mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

Seed

One of the outstanding players in a tournament

Seed

Anything that provides inspiration for later work

Seed

The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

Seed

Go to seed; shed seeds;
The dandelions went to seed

Seed

Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

Seed

Bear seeds

Seed

Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds

Seed

Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

Seed

Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain;
Seed clouds

Seed

Inoculate with microorganisms

Seed

Remove the seeds from;
Seed grapes

Fruit vs. Seed

After the process of fertilization, the ovary converted into a fruit; on the other hand, the ovule converted into a Seed. The fruit is formed by the angiosperms, while the seed formed from both angiosperms and gymnosperms. Fruit contains seeds in it, but the seeds do not contain fruits in it.

The fruit has the outer layer, which called the exocarp, whereas the seed has the outer layer, which is called a testa. Fruit structure is different from the formation of seed. The fruit is helpful in the seed dispersion, whereas seed helps reproduce the angiosperms and gymnosperm plants.

The fruit is the final product of the reproduction of plants; on the other side, the seed is the basic product need for the reproduction process. Fruits ripened when they fully developed, but the seed not ripened. The utilization of fruits is different from the utilization of seeds. Fruits are eaten when they are fresh, and many tasty things are made from it while the seeds used for making flour and oils.

What is Fruit?

Fruits are widely used all over the world. Fruits are sweet. There are various kinds of fruits. There are small and some big size fruits. There are various colors of fruits. Different areas of the world produce different kinds of fruits. And every area is famous for the best fruit they produce. Fruits developed from the ovary of the angiosperms.

The fruits produced after the fertilization process. Fruits play a very important role in the dispersion of the seed because the fruits have an attractive color that attracts the insects towards plant and help in seed dispersion. The seed dispersion is needed to start the reproduction of the plant.

The eatable part of the fruit is called the pericarp, and it consists of three layers exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp. Exocarp is the outer layer, and mesocarp is the middle layer, and endocarp is the inner layer in the fruits. Fruits ripened when they fully developed. And they are classified based on structure, taste, and the number of seeds they contain. Some fruits contain only one seed like mango, and the others contain a lot of seeds, such as watermelon. And some specially produced plants do not contain seeds at all.

Types

  • True Fruits: Ovary and Ovules produce this.
  • False Fruits: Ovary and other parts of flowers.
  • Simple Fruits: Single ovary.
  • Aggregate Fruits: Many ovaries.
  • Multiple Fruits: Produces multiple flowers and their ovaries.
  • Fleshy Fruits: Juicy fruits.
  • Dry Fruits: Dry grapes, dry dates, and dry plums.

What is Seed?

A seed is developed by the ovule and both angiosperms and gymnosperms from the seed. Seed plays a very important role in the reproduction of the plant. The seed contains an embryo that then reproduced to form fruits. Seeds are not ripened. Seeds dispersed in different ways for the reproduction of plants.

The angiosperms from the seeds which are enclosed, and they produced in the fruits. And the gymnosperms form the naked seeds, and they don’t have a body that can enclose it. The seed contains a seed coat, and the seed coat has two parts, the inner seed coat is tegmen, and the outer seed coat is testa.

The germination of the seed helps the embryo to develop. A seed is classified into different kinds based on the embryo’s morphology. Seeds are used to make oils, flour, and starch. The developed seeds are used in salads. There are two types of seed. The first type is endospermic seeds, and the second type is non-endospermic seeds.

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