fig tree

/fɪg tri/

/fɪg tri/

Other forms: fig trees

Definitions of fig tree

1. noun

   any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature
   types:

   Ficus carica, common fig, common fig tree, fig

   Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

   Ficus aurea, Florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig, wild fig

   a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

   East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan, banian, banian tree, banyan, banyan tree

   East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks

   Ficus religiosa, bo tree, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig

   fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists

   Assam rubber, Ficus elastica, India-rubber fig, India-rubber plant, India-rubber tree, rubber plant

   large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber

   Ficus deltoidea, Ficus diversifolia, mistletoe fig, mistletoe rubber plant

   shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe

   Botany Bay fig, Ficus rubiginosa, Port Jackson fig, little-leaf fig, rusty rig

   Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood

   Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore, sycamore fig

   thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore

   Ficus carica sylvestris, caprifig

   wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs

   type of:

   tree

   a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms