NOUN
- fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
How To Use syncarp In A Sentence
- False septums may have been put in later on which could lead to the misapprehension of a syncarpous ovary at superficial examination.
- Unfortunately their findings have been largely overlooked and most pomologists assume that apple flowers have an imperfectly syncarpous gynoecium.
- In the upper syncarpous part of the gynoecium the two bands of vascular bundles of the next higher bifurcation join to form a semicircular to almost circular complex of bundles.
- At anthesis, the ovary is completely septate; the syncarpous part (ovary and lower style) is completely symplicate.
- The first bifurcation is shortly above the transition from the syncarpous to the apocarpous zone, the second bifurcation is somewhat higher up.
- If ovaries are entirely fused together, gynaecium is syncarpous.
- Since all the carpels came from a single compartmented gynoecium (compound pistil), the gynoecium is referred to as syncarpous.
