| 单词 | common fig |
| 释义 | common fig (once / 1313257 pages) n WORD FAMILY common fig: common figs USAGE EXAMPLESIts sweetness resembles that of the common fig; and within it resembles the wild fig: but in size it is about equal to the cuckoo-apple. Athen?us, The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of...(2011) It bears a sweet edible fruit, somewhat like that of the common fig, but produced in racemes on the older boughs. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) And it is said to have received its generic name on account of its foliage somewhat resembling that of the common fig. Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James), Confessions of a Beachcomber(2010) n Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit Syn|Hypo|Hyper Ficus carica, common fig tree, fig Ficus carica sylvestris, caprifig wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs fig tree any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature |
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