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SYNCARP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
Synonyms:
aggregate fruit; multiple fruit; syncarp
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("syncarp" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syncarp"):
syconium (the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets)
Derivation:
syncarpous ((of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels)
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