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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having or consisting of united carpels. Used of a pistil.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having the character of a syncarp.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having carpels joined together

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels

Etymologies

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syn- + -carpous

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