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common fig

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Noun1.common fig - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruitcommon fig - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
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


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But David Tanis, who is head chef half the year at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, and hosts a private dining club in his Paris apartment the other six months, sees the fruit of the common fig tree another way -- as representative of the kind of beautiful, simple food he loves to cook and serve.
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