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syncarp


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  syncarp 
  n  :  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}] 




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