Bot. Also anglicized sycon. [mod.L., f. Gr. σῦκον fig.] A multiple fruit developed from numerous flowers imbedded in a fleshy receptacle, as in the fig.
1856. Henslow, Dict. Bot. Terms, Syconium, Syconus.
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., vii. § 2 (ed. 6), 303. The Syconium … results from a multitude of flowers concealed in a hollow flower-stalk,… which becomes pulpy and edible when ripe.
