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Syncarp definition

sĭnkärp
A fleshy aggregate fruit such as a pineapple or mulberry.
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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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(botany) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
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(botany) A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Noun

Singular:
syncarp
Plural:
syncarps

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