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Syncarp

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Noun

HYPHEN

syn=carp

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Syncarp has 1 sense

syncarp(n = noun.plant) aggregate fruit, multiple fruit - fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple; Array

is a kind of fruit

has particulars: syconium

Derived form adjective syncarpous₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Syncarp, n. [NL. syncarpium. See Syncarpous.].

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Syncarp, n. a compound fruit from a flower with several carpels, e.g. a blackberry.

Etymology

SYN- + Gk karpos fruit

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