common fig tree

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common fig tree - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit common fig, Ficus carica, fig 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