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71fig leaf — leaf of a fig tree; something which conceals or hides (usually insufficiently or inadequately) …
72fig leaf — noun a leaf of a fig tree, often used for concealing the genitals in paintings and sculpture. Origin C16: with ref. to the story of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:7) …
73fig leaf — noun 1. a leaf from a fig tree • Hypernyms: ↑leaf, ↑leafage, ↑foliage 2. a covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful • Hypernyms: ↑covering …
74fig wax — noun a hard cream colored wax obtained from a Javanese fig tree • Syn: ↑gondang wax • Hypernyms: ↑wax * * * noun : gondang wax …
75Tree — /tree/, n. Sir Herbert Beerbohm /bear bohm/, (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853 1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm. * * * I Woody perennial plant. Most trees have a single self supporting trunk containing woody tissues, and in …
76fig — [fıg] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: figue, from Latin ficus] 1.) a soft sweet fruit with a lot of small seeds, often eaten dried, or the tree on which this fruit grows 2.) not give a fig/not care a fig (about/for sth/sb) old fashioned …
77fig — [fıg] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: figue, from Latin ficus] 1.) a soft sweet fruit with a lot of small seeds, often eaten dried, or the tree on which this fruit grows 2.) not give a fig/not care a fig (about/for sth/sb) old fashioned …
78under one's own vine and fig tree — person on his own property, person surrounded by his own possessions …
79Cochineal fig — Fig Fig (f[i^]g), 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… …
80strangler fig — ▪ tree also called strangler many species of tropical figs (genus Ficus) named for their pattern of growth upon host trees, which often results in the host s death. Strangler figs and other strangler species are common in tropical forests …
