a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
Word origin
C17: from Latin caprifīcātiō, from caprifīcāre to pollinate figs by this method, from caprifīcuscaprifig
caprification in American English
(ˌkæprəfɪˈkeɪʃən)
noun
the pollination of certain cultivated figs through the transfer to them of pollen from the caprifig by a fig wasp
Word origin
L caprificatio, fertilization of figs by the pollination of the gall wasp < caprificare, to fertilize figs (by this process) < caprificus: see caprifig