Crossword-Solution: SYNCARPOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Syncarpous | a. | Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary. |
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| bearing syncarps, fleshy fruit developing from several carpels | 1 answer |
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Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SYNCARPOUS (5)
See Syncarpous.] (Bot.) Defn: A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.
The union in a syncarpous pistil is not always complete; it may take place by the ovaries alone, while the styles and stigmas remain free (fig.
When the carpels in a syncarpous pistil do not fold inwards so that the placentas appear as projections on the walls of the ovary, then the ovary is _unilocular_ (fig.
The styles of a syncarpous pistil are either separate or united; when separate, they alternate with the septa; when united completely, the style is said to be _simple_ (fig.
The stigma alternates with the dissepiments of a syncarpous pistil, or, in other words, corresponds with the back of the loculaments; but in some cases it would appear that half the stigma of one carpel unites with half that of the contiguous carpel, and thus the stigma is opposite the dissepiments, that is, alternates with the loculaments, as in the poppy.