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syconium


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Syconium  \Sy*co"ni*um\,  Syconus  \Sy*co"nus\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ? 
  the  fig.]  (Bot.) 
  A  collective  fleshy  fruit,  in  which  the  ovaries  are  hidden 
  within  a  hollow  receptacle,  as  in  the  fig. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  syconium 
  n  :  the  fleshy  multiple  fruit  of  the  fig  consisting  of  an 
  enlarged  hollow  receptacle  containing  numerous  fruitlets 




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