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BLUE FIG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blue fig mean?
• BLUE FIG (noun)
The noun BLUE FIG has 2 senses:
1. the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
2. Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Familiarity information: BLUE FIG used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue fig; quandong
Hypernyms ("blue fig" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Holonyms ("blue fig" is a part of...):
blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree (Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree
Hypernyms ("blue fig" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (parts of "blue fig"):
silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)
blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)
Holonyms ("blue fig" is a member of...):
Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)
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