syncarp Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Syn"carp noun
Etymology
NL. syncarpium. See Syncarpous.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913