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

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

The temples are overgrown with snapdragons and mallows, yellow asters and lilac gillyflowers, white allium and wild fig.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

Gigantic aloes with broad spiked blades and towering stalks stud the rocky declivities, and the cactus, wild fig, and other sub-tropical forms of plant-life lend character to the scenery.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.