synanthy
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Noun[edit]
synanthy (usually uncountable, plural synanthies)
- (botany) the abnormal fusion of two or more flowers
- 1869, Maxwell Tylden Masters, Vegetable Teratology[1], page 44:
- Many of the recorded cases of synanthy are really cases of the adhesion of the inflorescence rather than of the flowers.