Definition of "ficus" [‖Fi•cus]

• Any of numerous tropical trees, shrubs, or climbers of the genus Ficus, having pearlike multiple fruits. (noun)

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• "In the Southern California version the guy is fondling a ficus, which is not grass."
• "Order was soon restored by the interpreter; both sexes and all ages crowded round me with hootings of wonder, and, when they had stared their fill, allowed me to sit down under a kind of ficus, not unlike the banyan-tree (Ficus Indica)."
• "So this venue, with its white Christmas lights, deer heads on the walls, and hideous plastic ficus trees along the perimeter of the space, was not going to work."