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ALL meanings of fig

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  • noun fig A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. 1
  • noun fig dress or array: to appear at a party in full fig. 1
  • noun fig condition: to feel in fine fig. 1
  • noun fig type of fruit 1
  • noun fig Figure: Fig.: image, graph in a text 1
  • noun fig fruit tree that bears figs 1
  • noun fig rude gesture made with thumb 1
  • countable noun fig A fig is a soft sweet fruit that grows in hot countries. It is full of tiny seeds and is often eaten dried. 0
  • variable noun fig A fig or a fig tree is a tree on which figs grow. 0
  • noun fig In books and magazines, fig. is used as an abbreviation for figure in order to tell the reader which picture or diagram is being referred to. 0
  • noun fig In some dictionaries and language books, fig. is used as an abbreviation for figurative. 0
  • noun fig any moraceous tree or shrub of the tropical and subtropical genus Ficus, in which the flowers are borne inside a pear-shaped receptacle 0
  • noun fig the fruit of any of these trees, esp of F. carica, which develops from the receptacle and has sweet flesh containing numerous seedlike structures 0
  • noun fig any of various plants or trees having a fruit similar to this 0
  • noun fig something of negligible value; jot 0
  • noun fig a piece or segment from an orange 0
  • noun fig an insulting gesture made with the thumb between the first two fingers or under the upper teeth 0
  • verb fig to dress (up) or rig (out) 0
  • verb fig to administer stimulating drugs to (a horse) 0
  • noun fig dress, appearance, or array (esp in the phrase in full fig) 0
  • noun fig physical condition or form 0
  • abbreviation FIG figurative(ly) 0
  • abbreviation FIG figure 0
  • noun fig the hollow, pear-shaped false fruit (syconium) of the fig tree, with sweet, pulpy flesh containing numerous tiny, seedlike true fruits (achenes) 0
  • noun fig any of a genus (Ficus) of fig-bearing trees of the mulberry family, esp. any of the many cultivated varieties of a tree (F. carica) bearing edible figs 0
  • noun fig a trifling amount; little bit 0
  • noun fig a gesture of contempt or disdain made as by placing the thumb between the first two fingers or under the upper teeth 0
  • verb transitive fig to dress showily 0
  • noun fig dress; appearance 0
  • noun fig shape; condition 0
  • abbreviation FIG figurative 0
  • abbreviation FIG figuratively 0
  • noun fig figure(s) 0
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