English Explanatory Dictionary

syncarp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
  2. A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.

Word forms

syncarp syncarps

Etymology

From syn- + -carp, New Latin syncarpium. See syncarpous.

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