wild fig

American  

noun

1. the caprifig.

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Etymology

Origin of wild fig

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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

Assam rubber, which ranks in the market with the best Brazilian crude rubber, comes from the sap of this wild fig tree, Ficus elasticus.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

So again they camped in the open, under a solitary wild fig tree, and the rain held off.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)