Definitions for: Syncarp


[n] fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit

See Also: fruit, syconium

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