English > Ficus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees. |
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| Synonym | genus Ficus |
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| Member of | Moraceae, family Moraceae, mulberry family | Trees or shrubs having a milky juice |
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| Members | fig tree | Any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus |
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| golden fig, Florida strangler fig, strangler fig, wild fig, Ficus aurea | A strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies |
| sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus | thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | ficus, genus ficus |
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| Catalan | ficus, Ficus, genus ficus |
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