Ficus definition

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Any of numerous tropical or subtropical trees, shrubs, or vines of the genus Ficus, especially F. benjamina, commonly grown as a houseplant.
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Any of a genus (Ficus) of tropical shrubs, trees, and climbing plants of the mulberry family, with glossy, leathery leaves, including the rubber plant: often grown indoors as an ornamental.
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A taxonomic genus within the family Moraceae — the figs and banyans.
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ficus
Plural:
ficusses

Origin of ficus

  • Latin fīcus fig

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin ficus (“fig”)

    From Wiktionary

Ficus Sentence Examples

  • Ficus elastica is the tree which produces Rambong or Assam rubber.

  • Piper and Ficus, since the number of cosmopolitan or very widely distributed species is comparatively few, a geographical grouping is found specially convenient by those who are constantly receiving parcels of plants from known foreign sources.

  • The jagaey (Ficus sp.), which stifles in its giant coils the greatest trees of the forest, and the copei (Clusia rosea) are remarkable parasitic lianas.

  • In Assam and in upper Burma there are extensive forests of Ficus elastica, but to a large extent the trees have been damaged by careless tapping.

  • It seems at present doubtful, however, whether the establishment of plantations of Ficus will be profitable under ordinary conditions in India.

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