syncarp

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syncarp - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Syncarp \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.
     [1913 Webster]

syncarp - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  syncarp
      n 1: fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes
           derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle:
           e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple [syn: aggregate fruit
           , multiple fruit, syncarp]