ficus carica

Questions about ficus carica

What does ficus carica mean?

ficus carica means "Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit".

What is another word for ficus carica?

Close synonyms include fig, common fig, common fig tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ficus carica a common word?

ficus carica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.