NOUN
- the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
How To Use syconium In A Sentence
- Excessive pollination by fig wasps from a nearby caprifig tree caused the syconium to split open.
- After flower pollination, tiny fruits develop within the syconium, which turns into the ripened fig.
- Earlier, at the flower stage, the syconium is the same shape but much smaller.
