| NOUN | plant | syncarp, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle |
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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. | |
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| Synonyms | aggregate fruit, multiple fruit | |
| Narrower | syconium | The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets |
| Broader | fruit | The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
| Adjectives | syncarpous | (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels |
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