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noun
Any plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant, of species Ficus elastica.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Ficus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
History
Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
