Crossword clues for ficus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ficus \Fi"cus\, n. [L., a fig.] A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which ( F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
Note: Ficus Indica is the banyan tree; F. religiosa, the peepul tree; F. elastica, the India-rubber tree.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Latin ficus "fig, fig tree" (see fig). With capital letter, as the name of a large genus of trees and shrubs, chosen by Linnaeus (1753).
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A plant belonging to the genus ''Ficus'', including the rubber plant.
Wikipedia
Ficus ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The common fig (F. carica) is a temperate species native to southwest Asia and the Mediterranean region (from Afghanistan to Portugal), which has been widely cultivated from ancient times for its fruit, also referred to as figs. The fruit of most other species are also edible though they are usually of only local economic importance or eaten as bushfood. However, they are extremely important food resources for wildlife. Figs are also of considerable cultural importance throughout the tropics, both as objects of worship and for their many practical uses.
Ficus is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ficidae, the fig shells.
This is the type genus of the family Ficidae. Previously it has been categorized in the family Muricidae by Tryon, 1873) and Tritonidae (by Mörch)
Usage examples of "ficus".
Of the various trees from which India-rubber is procured, such as the Ficus prinoides, the Castilioa elastica, the Cecropia peltata, the Callophora utilis, the Cameraria latifolia, and especially the Siphonia elastica, all of which abound in the provinces of South America, not a single specimen was to be seen.
A rear patio as large as the odeum emptied to the rolling lawn and widely spaced birch trees walled by a twelve-foot-tall ficus hedge.
These schefflera, dracaena, and ficus trees sprouted from enormous in-ground squares scattered around the terra-cotta floor.
Ficus, philodendron and dieffenbachia stood silhouetted in the dim light.
Beyond the drooping pond apples are royal palms, coco plums, leather ferns and sprawling ficuses, ancient giants draped with moss, wild orchids and airplants.
The room was decorated with one yellowing ficus tree, some primitive paintings of houses one broker's daughter had done in grade school and a huge roll-up map of Cleary and environs, which made the town look more impressive than it ever could in person.
Palms, ficuses, and canopied carrotwoods stood solemnly in the windless downpour.
For a celebrational touch, she began to string fairy lights through the graceful branches of the ficus.
He scanned the distant ficus hedge into which Dominick Amador had disappeared, and hoped the pesky con artist was watching.
Both the ficus and the Boston fern were gone, and the walls were bare, all of the framed art prints missing.
There was a braided ficus tree on the floor, and a Boston fern in a pot on a stand of heavy plastic painted to look like wrought iron.
He followed the breeze-way into the courtyard, which was filled with palms and ficuses and ferns and too many landscape lights to please him, and he climbed an exterior staircase to the covered balcony that served the second-floor units of the two-story complex.
Begonias, ficus, creeping fig and cyclamen seemed to be mourning the loss of their master, and I looked around for a watering can.
Enough for half a dozen monographs - and there he was in an open space, eating Ficus religiosa.
But the gracefully curving streets, iron streetlamps with an artificial green patina, just-so arrangements of palms and jacarandas and ficus benjaminas, and well-maintained greenbelts with beds of colorful flowers were so soothing to the eye and soul that the subliminal sense of regimentation was not stifling.