fig
IPA: fˈɪg
noun
- The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
- A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
- The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
- The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
- (Newfoundland, dated) A raisin (dried grape).
- A small piece of tobacco.
- (colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
- The piece of ginger root used in figging.
- The 95th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”). [A drawing or diagram conveying information.]
verb
- (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
- (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
- (soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
- (colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
- (transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
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Examples of "fig" in Sentences
- As an example, the subroutine of Fig.
- The primary diet of the species is figs.
- Flowers pollinated by fig wasps within the fig.
- Fig newtons do not do justice to the flavour of the fig.
- The crow sees a fig tree and waits for the figs to ripen.
- The sap of the fig's green parts is an irritant to human skin.
- This interpretation is connected to the parable of the barren fig tree.
- The Moreton Bay fig is pollinated by the fig wasp Pleistodontes froggatti.
- In temperate climes, wasps hibernate in figs, and there are distinct crops.
- In, the next day, Simon Peter notices that the cursed fig tree has withered.
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