Lexic.us

Definition of Syncarp

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

Definition of Syncarp

1. n. 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.

Definition of Syncarp

1. Noun. (botany) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia. ¹

2. Noun. (botany) A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Syncarp

1. a fleshy multiple fruit [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syncarp

Literary usage of Syncarp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[<syncarp + -оме.] In bot., having the character of a ... [< syncarp + -y3.] The state of having consolidated carpels. syncategorematic ..."

2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The fleshy receptacle of the Rose-hip again encloses a syncarp, but the separate fruits constituting it are ... The syncarp must not be confounded with the ..."

3. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1922)
"Fruits drupaceous, inclosed in the thickened calyx of the flower and united into a compound fruit (syncarp). The Mulberry family is widely distributed with ..."

4. Biotechnology in International Agricultural Research: Proceedings of the by International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"syncarp, crown, slip of ... Variants were frequent in regenerated plants from syncarp and slip, but not in those from crown ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... fr. a dense aggregation of enlarged, fleshy calices into a globular syncarp with a ... light green or yellowish in color: syncarp 4-5 in. in diameter, ..."

6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"It seems to me that the figures representing the syncarp, the separate phalanges and section, in Vidal ''Flora Forestal de Filipinas" tab. Hü, ¡ig. ..."

7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[<syncarp + -оме.] In bot., having the character of a ... [< syncarp + -y3.] The state of having consolidated carpels. syncategorematic ..."

8. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The fleshy receptacle of the Rose-hip again encloses a syncarp, but the separate fruits constituting it are ... The syncarp must not be confounded with the ..."

9. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1922)
"Fruits drupaceous, inclosed in the thickened calyx of the flower and united into a compound fruit (syncarp). The Mulberry family is widely distributed with ..."

10. Biotechnology in International Agricultural Research: Proceedings of the by International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"syncarp, crown, slip of ... Variants were frequent in regenerated plants from syncarp and slip, but not in those from crown ..."

11. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... fr. a dense aggregation of enlarged, fleshy calices into a globular syncarp with a ... light green or yellowish in color: syncarp 4-5 in. in diameter, ..."

12. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"It seems to me that the figures representing the syncarp, the separate phalanges and section, in Vidal ''Flora Forestal de Filipinas" tab. Hü, ¡ig. ..."

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