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Definition of: syconium
(sī·kō′nē·əm) noun plural ·ni·a (-nē·ə) Bot.
An aggregate or multiple fruit in which many flowers have been developed on a fleshy receptacle, which is a flattened disk or forms a nearly closed cavity, as in the fig. [<NL <Gk. sykon a fig]
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