ficus

fi·cus  (fks)

n. pl. ficus or fi·cus·es

Any of numerous tropical trees, shrubs, or climbers of the genus Ficus, having pearlike multiple fruits.

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[Latin fcus, fig.]

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ficus [ˈfiːkəs]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any plant of the genus Ficus, which includes the edible fig and several greenhouse and house plants See rubber plant, weeping ivy

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Ficus - large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees genus Ficus dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination family Moraceae, Moraceae, mulberry family - trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis fig tree - any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature Ficus aurea, Florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig, wild fig - a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig, sycamore - thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore