| 单词 | goat fig |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat fig goat fig n. [after classical Latin caprifīcus caprifig n.] any of various wild fig trees; (in later use) a hermaphrodite common fig tree, Ficus carica (family Moraceae); the fruit of such a tree. The common fig tree is gynodioecious; hermaphrodite trees bear the inedible goat fig containing both male and female flowers used for caprification of some cultivated figs, while edible figs are produced by female trees and contain only female flowers. ΚΠ 1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 123 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I Upon that they made a Feast of Triumph, call'd the Nones of the Goats, because of the wild Fig-tree, call'd by the Romans, Caprificus, or the Goat-Fig. 1835 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 106 The common Figtree..when in its wild state is called Caprificus or Goat-fig. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1149 The Smyrna figs planted in California did not succeed until goat-figs and wasps were also domiciled there. 2010 R. W. Matthews & J. R. Matthews Insect Behaviour (ed. 2) iv. 174 (caption) Fig wasps develop in the ovule of the short-necked female flowers that pack the inside of goat figs. < as lemmas |
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