ficus

Noun
  1. Large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees (synset 112421627)
    is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
    member holonym:
    • 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
    belongs to: family moraceae, moraceae, mulberry family - trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis
    same as: genus ficus

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