synanthy

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noun

the abnormal fusion of two or more flowers

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Meanings

nounsynanthy (usually uncountable, plural synanthies)

plural synanthies

  1. uncountableusuallybiologythe abnormal fusion of two or more flowers

    Many of the recorded cases of synanthy are really cases of the adhesion of the inflorescence rather than of the flowers.

    1869, Maxwell Tylden Masters, Vegetable Teratology, page 44
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