wild fig

American  

noun

1. the caprifig.

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Etymology

Origin of wild fig

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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wild fig

In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fruit bat gave a high pinging cry as it left the branches of a wild fig.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Shall the strength of its generations be as barren as death; or cast away their labor, as the wild fig tree casts her untimely figs?

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

Its situation was an open slope, fronting a rolling country, more or less thickly grown with wild fig and mahobo-hobo, mimosa and feathery acacia.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

Then she sat down beneath the shade of a large overhanging wild fig, to take it all in.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram