aggregate

adjective, noun, verb

, , & Said of fruits formed from several carpels, from separate ovaries, derived from the same flower: an aggregate fruit, as the raspberry; said of a flower formed by a cluster of florets, in a dense mass or head, but not cohering, as in composite plants: an aggregate flower. Said of a group of species comprising several very similar species that were formerly regarded as a single species. In mosses, applied to two or more sporophytes from one perichaetium. Also aggregated. See aggregate fruit.