Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fleshy multiple fruit of a fig, consisting of the enlarged, hollow, rounded floral receptacle with numerous fruitlets inside.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a fleshy hollow receptacle, containing numerous flowers which develop together into a multiple fruit, as in the fig. Also called
hypanthodium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
collective fleshy fruit , in which theovaries are hidden within ahollow receptacle , as in thefig ; a hollow ball with a stalk at one end and an opening (ostiole ) at the other, withflowers orfruits on the inside.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin sȳcōnium, from Greek sūkon, fig.]
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Ancient Greek σύκον ("fig").
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