syncarp

English

Etymology

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

Noun

syncarp (plural syncarps)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “syncarp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)