noun
A fleshy aggregate fruit such as a pineapple or mulberry.
syncarp
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A fleshy compound fruit composed either of the fruits of several flowers, as in the pineapple and mulberry, or of several carpels of a single flower, as in the magnolia and raspberry.
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Noun
(plural syncarps)
- (botany) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
- (botany) A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.
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Origin
New Latin syncarpium. See syncarpous.
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