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n. 1. a. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit. b. The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having many tiny seedlike fruits. 2. a. Any of several plants bearing similar fruit. b. The fruit of such a plant. 3. A trivial or contemptible amount: not worth a fig.
[Middle English, from Old French figue, from Old Provençal figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus; possibly akin to Greek sūkon (with Boeotian dialectal variant tūkon) and Armenian t‘uz, fig, all ultimately of Near Eastern or Mediterranean substrate origin.] (click for a larger image) fig1common fig Ficus carica |