wild fig
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wild fig
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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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
And in the shade of the mimosa, and wild fig, and mahobo-hobo, birds piped and called to each other.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram
The fruit of the wild fig never acquires the succulence of the cultivated kinds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 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
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