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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A hermaphrodite fruit, inedible to humans, of certain usually uncultivated species of Ficus, which is the source of the pollen with which fig wasps pollinate edible female fruit in both cultivated and uncultivated Ficus trees.
2. 2
   wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

ficus carica sylvestris

Example

More examples

"The male of a fig tree is called a caprifig."

Etymology

From Latin caprifīcus.

Related phrases

accessory fruit

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