the pollination of certain cultivated figs through the transfer to them of pollen from the caprifig by a fig wasp
See caprification in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kăpˌrə-fĭ-kāˈshən)
noun
A method of assuring pollination of the Smyrna and other edible figs in which flower clusters of the caprifig are hung from trees of the edible fig, allowing wasps to carry pollen from the flowers of the caprifig to those of the edible varieties.