Noun (1)
they choose to live modestly and don't seem to give a fig for the trappings of success
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The nose is floral and aromatic, highlighting notes of honeysuckle, cinnamon, vanilla, and fig.—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025 Landscaping the backyard and adding privacy plants while maintaining existing varieties, such as quince, pomegranate, apple, plum, orange, pineapple guava and fig trees.—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2025 Each of the rooms has a pool that’s solar heated, and over 600 indigenous seedlings, including olive and fig trees, were planted on the 100-acre property.—Jinnie Lee Laura Regensdorf Elissa Suh Roxanne Fequiere, New York Times, 15 May 2025 Now ninety years old, Cárdenas still receives visitors at his home office, a single-story house shaded by a fig tree.—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fig
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Noun (1)
Middle English fige, from Anglo-French, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fica, from Latin ficus fig tree, fig
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