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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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