syncarp

A noun referring to a type of fruit formed from multiple ovaries within a single receptacle, resulting in a cluster of small individual fruits or drupes, such as in blackberries, raspberries, or pineapples.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un type de fruit formé à partir de plusieurs ovaires d'une même fleur, donnant un ensemble de petits fruits ou drupes distincts, comme chez la mûre, la framboise ou l'ananas.

1. Compound fruit C2 formal scientific

   A fruit formed from the fusion of multiple ovaries from separate flowers, resulting in a single structure that contains many small fruitlets.

   • The blackberry is a classic example of a syncarp, composed of many small drupelets.
   • Botanists classify the pineapple as a syncarp because it develops from multiple flowers.
   • Raspberries are syncarps, where each tiny segment is a separate fruit.

   🇫🇷Syncarpe (fruit composé)

   Synonymes: infructescencemultiple fruit