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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A fleshy compound fruit composed either of the fruits of several flowers, as in the pineapple and mulberry, or of several carpels of a single flower, as in the magnolia and raspberry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany: An aggregate fruit, like the blackberry, magnolia, custard-apple, etc.; also, a multiple fruit, like the fig, mulberry, partridge-berry, etc. See fruit, 4, and cuts under Anona, Magnolia, mulberry, and Phytelephas.
  2. n. Same as æthalium.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. New Latin syncarpium. See syncarpous. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed”

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  • “The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed ovaries fused together, each one from a separate flower”

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  • “If a pineapple were to be cross-pollinated and develop seeds, there would be hundreds of tiny brown seeds in a single syncarp, with one seed for each individual fruit in the fused pineapple”

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  • “The syncarp also has a thick, waxy rind made up of hexagon-shaped eyes that turns dark green, yellow, yellow-orange, or red when the fruit ripens”

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  • “Each flower develops into a fruit that becomes part of the fused syncarp.”

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