[ noun ] the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets <noun.plant>
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.