wild fig

noun

Origin of wild fig

First recorded in 1700–10

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Wherever there is a wild fig-tree ripe, a numerous species of birds, called tangara, is sure to be on it.
Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
Among the fruits used by them is a kind of wild fig; and they eat also the kernels of that fruit which resembles a pine-apple.
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay | Arthur Phillip
The Greeks called the wild fig erineos, and the Latins caprificus.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De Candolle
And Amerias says, that the figs on the wild fig-trees are called .
The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenus | Athenus
Having glanced at a towering sapodilla tree, he noticed that a wild fig vine grew up its side.
The Red Lure | Roy J. Snell

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