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Syconium

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Word	Definition
syconusnoun	(botany) A syconium.
anthocarpnoun	(botany) A fruit resulting from many flowers, such as the pineapple; a fruit of which the perianth or the torus forms part.
syconoidnoun	A member of the genus Sycon of sponges.
syncarpnoun	(botany) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
sorosisnoun	(botany) Any multiple fruit, usually fleshy, that is derived from the multiple ovaries in an infructescence. Such a structure typically includes remnants of floral tissues such as the perianth. Examples include the mulberry and pineapple.
coenobiumnoun	A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
hypocarpiumnoun	(botany) An enlarged fleshy structure that forms below the fruit, from the receptacle or hypanthium.
sorocarpnoun	A fruiting body, characteristic of certain cellular slime molds, consisting of both a sorophore and a sorus
coenosorusnoun	(botany) A compound sorus consisting of multiple fused sori.
synangiumnoun	(botany) The boat-shaped sorus of certain ferns.
peritheciumnoun	(mycology) An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.
sarcobasis	—
spore fruitnoun	(mycology) Synonym of ascocarp.
sarcotestanoun	A fleshy seed coat, as in the pomegranate.
cononoun	(informal) Clipping of conophytum. [(botany) Any of the genus Conophytum of South African and Namibian aizoaceous succulent plants.]
strobilusnoun	(botany) A cone-shaped fruiting body sensu stricto of gymnosperms and vascular plants other than angiosperms, bearing either seeds or spores, but sensu lato may refer to similarly structured catkins and cones in angiosperms; usage arbitrary according to preferences of various authorities.
synergidnoun	(botany) Either of two naked nucleated cells at the top of the embryo sac that cooperate with the oosphere in the production of the embryo.
cleistotheciumnoun	(botany) A closed ascocarp, in some fungi, from which spores are released following decay or disintegration
asconnoun	(biology) A cavity, in the form of a bag or tube, lined with choanocytes, that forms the structure of sponges
ascoconidiumnoun	Any phialosporous fungus of the genus Ascoconidium