| Noun | 1. | Ficus carica - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruitfig - 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 |