Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fleshy aggregate fruit such as a pineapple or mulberry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: An aggregate fruit, like the blackberry, magnolia, custard-apple, etc.; also, a multiple fruit, like the fig, mulberry, partridge-berry, etc. See
fruit , 4, and cuts under Anona, Magnolia, mulberry, and Phytelephas. - noun Same as
æthalium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A kind of
aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia. - noun botany A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
Etymologies
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The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed ovaries fused together, each one from a separate flower
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The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed ovaries fused together, each one from a separate flower
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The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed
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The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed
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The pineapple fruit, called a syncarp, is actually over 100 developed
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The syncarp also has a thick, waxy rind made up of hexagon-shaped eyes that turns dark green, yellow, yellow-orange, or red when the fruit ripens
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The syncarp also has a thick, waxy rind made up of hexagon-shaped eyes that turns dark green, yellow, yellow-orange, or red when the fruit ripens
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If a pineapple were to be cross-pollinated and develop seeds, there would be hundreds of tiny brown seeds in a single syncarp, with one seed for each individual fruit in the fused pineapple
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If a pineapple were to be cross-pollinated and develop seeds, there would be hundreds of tiny brown seeds in a single syncarp, with one seed for each individual fruit in the fused pineapple
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The syncarp also has a thick, waxy rind made up of hexagon-shaped eyes that turns dark green, yellow, yellow-orange, or red when the fruit ripens
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