noun
- a fleshy multiple fruit formed from the fusion of several separate carpels or flowers
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The raspberry is an example of a syncarp made up of many small drupelets.
- Botanists classify the blackberry as a syncarp rather than a simple berry.
- The syncarp develops when multiple carpels grow together during fruit formation.
- Students learned to identify syncarps by examining their clustered structure.
- The mulberry represents a type of syncarp formed from an entire flower cluster.