Etymology

caprifig

cap·ri·fig
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Today it means: A hermaphrodite fruit, inedible to humans, of certain usually uncultivated species of Ficus, which is the source of the pollen with which fig wasps pollinate edible female fruit in both cultivated and uncultivated Ficus trees. Full definition →

Latin caprifīcus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromcaprifīcus
  2. Latin · borrowed fromcaprifīcus
  3. English todaycaprifig

Borrowed from Latin caprifīcus.

Words from the same roots

Latincaprifīcus all →

caprificationcaprify

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