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fig

fig

32 1.0
A soft sweet fruit with thin skin eaten fresh or dried
  • noun
  • /fɪg/
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  • Fresh strawberry, fresh peach, fresh fig, I don't know what else, but fresh, all of it fresh.
  • fig fruit

We've got honey, a fig cake and a newer date.

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Examples

  • Also, our Chicago Hardy fig in here is just loaded with figs, just absolutely loaded.

  • I tried a fig and an oyster together, a lovely combination, sweet and smoky.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • There are some figs too, and those look really nice.

  • You can see here some of the figs right there.

  • In a small voice, she called out, "Figs and honey, please."

    Fiction book (1998)
  • I got your letter and the box of dried figs.

  • It smells like real Peaches but it does have like that sweet fig creamy vibe to it.

  • A week later, the papal messenger brought Lily a clay vessel that contained figs and honey.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • As you advised, I stuffed each quail with a fresh fig instead of thyme and lemon zest.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I enjoyed a fresh fig with my breakfast this morning.

Compounds

8 1.3

A tree that grows sweet pear-shaped fruit you can eat

fig leaf
  • Informal
4 6.7

Something used to hide a wrong or embarrassing action

flying fig
  • Archaic
1 9.6

A thing that is not important or worth worrying about

A tropical tree that begins life on another tree then grows around and often kills it

blue fig
  • Australian
9.9

An Australian tree with hard white wood and small glossy blue fruit

blue fig
  • Australian
9.3

A small edible blue fruit from an Australian tree with soft flesh and one seed

Botany Bay fig
  • Australian
8.0

A large Australian fig tree with big leaves and wide branches often planted for shade or as a garden tree

A Mediterranean tree that makes sweet edible figs

A tree from warm regions that grows small sweet fruit eaten fresh or dried

9.9

A prickly plant with large white or yellow flowers that grows in warm parts of America

A large Indian tree that sends roots down from branches to form new trunks

2.7

A large lobed leaf from a fig tree

fig marigold
  • South African
9.9

A small plant from South Africa with bright pink or white flowers often grown in gardens

8.6

An insect whose caterpillars eat and make webs in dried figs and other stored fruits

fig wax
  • UK
9.9

A hard pale wax from fig tree leaves in Java used in polishes and cosmetics

fig-bird
  • Australian
9.5

A green and yellow Australian bird that eats mainly figs and other fruit

Having a wide middle and narrow ends like a fig fruit

Florida strangler fig
  • Specialized
8.5

A large tree that starts on another tree and grows roots that wrap and cover the host

little-leaf fig
  • Australian
8.8

An Australian tree with small leaves often grown for gardens and brushwood

mistletoe fig
  • Specialized
9.1

A small tropical tree grown as a houseplant with thick waxy round leaves

A large tree with wide branches from Africa and southwest Asia that grows small edible figs

9.4

A tree that starts on another tree and grows thick roots over rocks and buildings

9.9

A low plant with thick, fleshy leaves and sweet edible fruit from South Africa

9.9

A low plant with thick leaves that grows on coastal sand and has edible fruit

8.0

A big tropical tree with large shiny leaves grown indoors and once used to make rubber

sacred fig
  • Indian
8.7

A large fig tree from India that people in Buddhism and Hinduism consider holy

Port Jackson fig
  • Australian
8.7

A large Australian tree with wide branches and roots that hang down, often planted for shade

sycamore fig
  • South African
9.0

A large spreading tree from Africa and Asia that makes small edible but not very tasty figs

sour fig
  • South African
9.2

A low plant from South Africa with thick leaves that makes small edible fruit

6.9

A tropical tree that grows in warm places and has small sweet fruit

How Sweet

date
276 1.0
fig
32 1.0
mulberry
2 3.9
blackberry
13 1.0
raspberry
64 1.0
cranberry
61 1.4

Surface Forms

fig singular
figs plural

Etymology

Fig for the sweet fruit also comes from Latin ficus, which meant 'fig tree', so think of the soft, sweet inside to remember the fruit itself.