A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity
fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
A fig is a soft sweet fruit that grows in hot countries. It is full of tiny seeds and is often eaten dried
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
In books and magazines, fig. is used as an abbreviation for figure in order to tell the reader which picture or diagram is being referred to. Draw the basic outlines in black felt-tip pen
a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
In some dictionaries and language books, fig. is used as an abbreviation for figurative. Any plant of the genus Ficus, in the mulberry family, especially Ficus carica, the common fig. Yielding the well-known figs of commerce, F. carica is native to an area from Asiatic Turkey to northern India, but natural seedlings grow in most Mediterranean countries, where figs are used extensively, both fresh and dried. It is a bush or small tree with broad, rough, deciduous leaves (see deciduous tree). Hundreds of different varieties are grown in various parts of the world. The fig was one of the first fruit trees to come under cultivation. Its fruit contains significant amounts of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and iron
fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness)
disapproval People sometimes refer disapprovingly to something which is intended to hide or prevent an embarrassing situation as a fig leaf. This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape. the large leaf of the fig tree, sometimes shown in paintings as covering people's sex organs
Any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, native to southern Africa and having thick fleshy leaves and variously colored flowers. Also called icicle plant, pebble plant
A small wasp belonging to the family Agonidae, especially Blastophaga psenes, that breeds in the caprifig and is active in the pollination of fig trees and shrubs
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group: a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
() Middle English fige, from Anglo-Norman figue, from Old Provençal figa, from Vulgar Latin fīca 'fig', from Latin fīcus 'fig tree', from Semitic (compare Phoenician pagh, paggím 'half-ripe fig' ). Semitic also gave Ancient Greek σῦκον (sukon) 'fig', (Boeotian) τῦκον (tukon) and Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz).