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SYNCARP

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 I. (noun) 

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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