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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.
ficus is a noun meaning "large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees". It carries one recorded sense.
large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
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 ficus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.