synanthy
English
Noun
synanthy (usually uncountable, plural synanthies)
- (botany) the 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. — Maxwell Tylden Masters, Vegetable teratology, p. 44.
References
Synanthy in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)