hypanthodiumn.
/hʌɪpanˈθəʊdɪəm/ Botany.
In certain plants, an enlargement of the receptacle, sometimes becoming fleshy and surrounding the ovary.
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1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. ii. 108 If the receptacle is fleshy, and is not enclosed within an involucrum, as in Dorstenia and Ficus, it is then called by Link Hypanthodium.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 204 The Hypanthodium..is formed by a receptacle which is usually of a fleshy nature becoming more or less incurved.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) v. 149 Syconium, the name given to the Fig-fruit, is a sort of inflorescence... It has also been named a Hypanthodium.
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