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

Its sweetness resembles that of the common fig; and within it resembles the wild fig: but in size it is about equal to the cuckoo-apple.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Stopped at the Barahduree as usual, this one surrounded with wild fig, plum, peach, pomegranate, and mulberry trees.

From Three Months of My Life by J. F. Foster

The comparison of the fertilization of the date palm to the use of the wild fig refers to the practice of Caprification.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone