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Sycones
- - A division of calcareous sponges.
Syconia
- noun - the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Syconus
- - A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
Sycosis
- - A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.
Syenite
- - Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite. (b) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.
Syllabi
- noun - an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university"
Sylphid
- - A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
Sylvans
- noun - a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods