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FICUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
Synonyms:
Ficus; genus Ficus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ficus" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Ficus"):
fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)
Ficus aurea; Florida strangler fig; golden fig; strangler fig; wild fig (a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas)
Ficus sycomorus; mulberry fig; sycamore; sycamore fig (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)
Holonyms ("Ficus" is a member of...):
family Moraceae; Moraceae; mulberry family (trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis)
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