syconium

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig, consisting primarily of the enlarged, hollow, globose floral receptacle open at the apex and containing numerous fruitlets.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In botany, a fleshy hollow receptacle, containing numerous flowers which develop together into a multiple fruit, as in the fig. Also called hypanthodium.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets