syncarp

Feb. 12th, 2007 07:20 am
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Starting off a week of botanical oddments is:


syncarp - n., a compound fruit.


This can be either an aggregate of fruits of several flowers, such as a pineapple and mulberry, or a collective of carpels of a single flower, as a magnolia and raspberry. From Latin, from Greek syn-, with, together (equivalent to the Latin co-) + karpós, fruit.

Bonus word: achenocarp - a fruit that doesn't open by itself.

---L.

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