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 the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig; a hollow ball with a stalk at one end and an opening (ostiole) at the other, with flowers or fruits 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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