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syncarp
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
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]
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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