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FIG TREE

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Meaning:

Any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fig tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fig tree"):

common fig; common fig tree; Ficus carica; fig (Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit)

Ficus aurea; Florida strangler fig; golden fig; strangler fig; wild fig (a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas)

banian; banian tree; banyan; banyan tree; East Indian fig tree; Ficus bengalensis; Indian banyan (East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks)

bo tree; Ficus religiosa; peepul; pipal; pipal tree; pipul; sacred fig (fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists)

Assam rubber; Ficus elastica; India-rubber fig; India-rubber plant; India-rubber tree; rubber plant (large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber)

Ficus deltoidea; Ficus diversifolia; mistletoe fig; mistletoe rubber plant (shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe)

Botany Bay fig; Ficus rubiginosa; little-leaf fig; Port Jackson fig; rusty rig (Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood)

Ficus sycomorus; mulberry fig; sycamore; sycamore fig (thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore)

Holonyms ("fig tree" is a member of...):

Ficus; genus Ficus (large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees)

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