ficus : Idioms & Phrases

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ficus aurea

  • noun a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
    Florida strangler fig; wild fig; strangler fig; golden fig.
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ficus bengalensis

  • noun East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
    banyan; East Indian fig tree; Indian banyan; banyan tree; banian tree; banian.
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ficus carica

  • noun Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
    common fig tree; common fig; fig.
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ficus carica sylvestris

  • noun wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
    caprifig.
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ficus deltoidea

  • noun shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
    mistletoe fig; Ficus deltoidea; mistletoe rubber plant.
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ficus diversifolia

  • noun shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
    mistletoe fig; Ficus deltoidea; mistletoe rubber plant.
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ficus elastica

  • noun large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber
    India-rubber tree; rubber plant; India-rubber fig; India-rubber plant; Assam rubber.
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ficus religiosa

  • noun fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
    bo tree; pipul; peepul; pipal tree; sacred fig; pipal.
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ficus rubiginosa

  • noun Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
    rusty rig; Botany Bay fig; Port Jackson fig; little-leaf fig.
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ficus sycomorus

  • noun 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
    mulberry fig; sycamore; sycamore fig.
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genus ficus

  • noun large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
    Ficus.
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