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COMMON FIG TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common fig tree mean?
• COMMON FIG TREE (noun)
The noun COMMON FIG TREE has 1 sense:
1. Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
Familiarity information: COMMON FIG TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common fig; common fig tree; Ficus carica; fig
Hypernyms ("common fig tree" is a kind of...):
fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)
Meronyms (parts of "common fig tree"):
fig (fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried)
syconium (the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common fig tree"):
caprifig; Ficus carica sylvestris (wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs)
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