syncarp

Questions about syncarp

What does syncarp mean?

syncarp means "fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple".

How many syllables are in syncarp?

syncarp has 2 syllables and divides as syn-carp under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for syncarp?

Close synonyms include aggregate fruit, multiple fruit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is syncarp a common word?

syncarp is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.