ficusn.
/ˈfʌɪkəs/ Pathology.
1. See quots.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > papilloma
ficusc1400
wart1552
condyloma1656
papilloma1860
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [noun] > piles
haemorrhoids1398
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fig14..
pile?a1425
crest1569
marisca1684
Farmer Giles1955
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A) 287 Ficus is a maner wexynge þat arisiþ upon a mannes ȝerde tofore.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxi. f. clxxxxviii At goddes ordynaunce he had that Euyll called Fycus.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Ficus, Pathol. Surg., name given to a fleshy substance or kind of Condyloma resembling a fig.
2. Botany. [Adopted by Linnæus in his Species Plantarum (1753) II. 1059 as the name of a genus.] A member of a large genus of trees and shrubs so named, belonging to the family Moraceæ and widely distributed in warm regions; it includes the fig, Ficus carica, and the rubber plant, F. elastica, a common house-plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > ficus trees
ficus1864
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1328 The Fig tree is called..in Latine Ficus.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1494 The tree is called..in Latine Ficus both tree and fruite.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Figg-tree, is Ficus.]
1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. v. 60 The tree, a ficus, whose bark affords the Waganda their clothing.
1959 Listener 17 Dec. 1094/3 Ficus or rubber plants can be acclimatised to light or shade.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 135/2 Several cultivated types of this Ficus are grown.
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