synanthy

English

Noun

synanthy (usually uncountable, plural synanthies)

1. (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.

References

• Synanthy in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)