About The Word Fig
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What's The Definition Of Fig?
[n] a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
[n] fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried [n] Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit Synonyms | Synonyms for Fig: common fig | common fig tree | Ficus carica | figure Related Terms | Find terms related to Fig: a continental | a curse | a damn | a darn | a hoot | apparel | array | attire | bagatelle | bauble | bean | bedizenment | bibelot | bit | brass farthing | button | cent | clothes | clothing | costume | curio | drapery | dress | dressing | duds | farce | farthing | fashion | fatigues | feather | feathers | fleabite | folderol | fribble | frippery | garb | garments | gaud | gear | gewgaw | gimcrack | guise | habiliment | habit | hair | halfpenny | hill of beans | investiture | investment | jest | joke | kickshaw | knickknack | knickknackery | linen | minikin | mockery | molehill | peppercorn | picayune | pin | pinch of snuff | pinprick | rags | raiment | rap | red cent | robes | row of pins | rush | shit | snap | sneeshing | sou | sportswear | straw | style | threads | togs | toilette | toy | trifle | trim | trinket | triviality | tuppence | two cents | twopence | vestment | vesture | wear | wearing apparel | whim-wham See Also | caprifig | common fig | common fig tree | edible fruit | Ficus carica | Ficus carica sylvestris | fig | fig | fig tree | illustration | syconium Fig In Webster's Dictionary \Fig\, n. [F. figue the fruit of the tree, Pr. figa, fr. L.
ficus fig tree, fig. Cf. {Fico}.]
1. (Bot.) A small fruit tree ({Ficus Carica}) with large
leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably
native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
2. The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong
shape, and of various colors.
Note: The fruit of a fig tree is really the hollow end of a
stem, and bears numerous achenia inside the cavity.
Many species have little, hard, inedible figs, and in
only a few does the fruit become soft and pulpy. The
fruit of the cultivated varieties is much prized in its
fresh state, and also when dried or preserved. See
{Caprification}.
3. A small piece of tobacco. [U.S.]
4. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used
in scorn or contempt. ``A fig for Peter.'' --Shak.
{Cochineal fig}. See {Conchineal fig}.
{Fig dust}, a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged
birds.
{Fig faun}, one of a class of rural deities or monsters
supposed to live on figs. ``Therefore shall dragons dwell
there with the fig fauns.'' --Jer. i. 39. (Douay version).
{Fig gnat} (Zo["o]l.), a small fly said to be injurious to
figs.
{Fig leaf}, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first
clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a covering for a
thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate
covering; a symbol for affected modesty.
{Fig marigold} (Bot.), the name of several plants of the
genus {Mesembryanthemum}, some of which are prized for the
brilliancy and beauty of their flowers.
{Fig tree} (Bot.), any tree of the genus {Ficus}, but
especially {F. Carica} which produces the fig of commerce.
\Fig\, v. t. [See {Fico}, {Fig}, n.] 1. To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See {Fico}. [Obs.] When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard. --Shak. 2. To put into the head of, as something useless o? contemptible. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. \Fig\, n. Figure; dress; array. [Colloq.] Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras? --Prof. Wilson. |
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