common_fig (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *common fig*:
NOUN	plant	common fig, fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica	Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

English > *common fig*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
Synonyms	fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica
Parts	fig	fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
Parts	syconium	The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets
Narrower	caprifig, Ficus carica sylvestris	wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
Broader	fig tree	Any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus
Spanish	ficus carica, higuera común, higuera
Catalan	ficus carica, Ficus carica, figuera

HyperDic: common_fig