ficus carica sylvestris

1. 1.

   wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs

   Synonymscaprifig

   Broaderfig

Questions about ficus carica sylvestris

What does ficus carica sylvestris mean?

ficus carica sylvestris means "wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs".

What is another word for ficus carica sylvestris?

Close synonyms include caprifig. 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 sylvestris a common word?

ficus carica sylvestris 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.