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wild fig
noun
- the caprifig.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wild fig1
First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences
Wherever there is a wild fig-tree ripe, a numerous species of birds, called tangara, is sure to be on it.
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Among the fruits used by them is a kind of wild fig; and they eat also the kernels of that fruit which resembles a pine-apple.
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The Greeks called the wild fig erineos, and the Latins caprificus.
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And Amerias says, that the figs on the wild fig-trees are called .
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Having glanced at a towering sapodilla tree, he noticed that a wild fig vine grew up its side.
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