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noun
A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fruit
Narrower terms: syconium
History
From syn- + -carp, New Latin syncarpium. See syncarpous.
