What does "syncarp" mean?

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.

Syncarp

Common synonyms include: aggregate fruit, consolidated fruit, consolidated gynoecium, fused fruit, fused gynoecium, fused ovary.

noun

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Noun

1
A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
2
fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple wordnet
3
A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.

From syn- + -carp, New Latin syncarpium. See syncarpous.