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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
caprifig is a noun meaning "wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs". It carries one recorded sense.
wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for caprifig come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.