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fig ¹  (fg)

n.

1.

a. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit.

b. The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having numerous tiny seedlike fruits.

2.

a. Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.

b. The fruit of such a plant.

3. A trivial or contemptible amount: not worth a fig; didn't care a fig.

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[Middle English, from Old French figue, from Old Provençal figa, from Vulgar Latin *fca, from Latin fcus.]

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fig

Noun

1. a soft sweet fruit full of tiny seeds, which grows on a tree

2. not care or give a fig not to care at all: he did not give a fig for his enemies [Latin ficus fig tree]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fig - a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2" figure illustration - artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
	2.	fig - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica fig - fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried fig tree - any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature caprifig, Ficus carica sylvestris - wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs syconium - the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
	3.	FIG - a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear Libya, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
	4.	fig - fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica, fig - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

Translations

fig [fɪg] n → higo

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fig [fɪg] n → figue f

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fig [fɪg] n → Feige f

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fig [fɪg] n → fico