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SYCONIUM
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Irregular inflected form: syconia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("syconium" is a kind of...):
aggregate fruit; multiple fruit; syncarp (fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple)
Holonyms ("syconium" is a part of...):
common fig; common fig tree; Ficus carica; fig (Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit)
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