Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or consisting of united carpels. Used of a pistil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the character of a syncarp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.
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- adjective botany Having
carpels joined together
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels
Etymologies
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syn- + -carpous
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Examples
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If the pistil be normally syncarpous, its constituent carpels, if present at all in the prolified flower, become disjoined one from the other to allow of the passage between them of the prolonged axis; thus in some malformed flowers of _Daucus Carota_ gathered in Switzerland
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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