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Meaning of SYNCARP

Pronunciation:  'sinkârp

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
 
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 Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit
 
 See Also: fruit, syconium

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Syn"carp\, n. [NL. syncarpium. See {Syncarpous}.]
(Bot.)
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.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: A structure consisting of several united fruits, usually fleshy. Compare aggregate fruit.
 

 

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