† caprifign.
Obsolete. rare.
The wild fig.
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figs of Pharaoh?c1225
caprifigc1420
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Smyrna fig1897
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 589 Sum men sette amonge hem caprifige Tree that it nede not for remedie To honge on every tree that trees fige.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 492 A wild sort called the Caprifig.
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