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GENUS FICUS

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Meaning:

Large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees

Synonyms:

Ficus; genus Ficus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Ficus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ficus"):

fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)

Ficus aurea; Florida strangler fig; golden fig; strangler fig; wild fig (a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas)

Ficus sycomorus; mulberry fig; sycamore; sycamore fig (thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore)

Holonyms ("genus Ficus" is a member of...):

family Moraceae; Moraceae; mulberry family (trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis)

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