synanthy

English

Noun

synanthy (usually uncountable, plural synanthies)

(botany) the abnormal fusion of two or more flowers
- 1869, Maxwell Tylden Masters, Vegetable Teratology‎, 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)

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