syconium
/saɪˈkoʊniəm/
noun
- A type of fruit that is actually a hollow, fleshy structure containing many tiny flowers on the inside, such as a fig.
- The fig is a syconium, not a simple fruit like an apple.
- When you bite into a fig, you are eating the fleshy wall of a syconium.
- Botanists study the syconium to understand how figs are pollinated by tiny wasps.