Fig



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.无花果, 一点儿
• ［英］ n.无花果, 一点儿 ( a trifling amount; little bit)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English fige, from Anglo-French, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fica, from Latin ficus fig tree, fig
• Date: 13th century
• 1.
  • a. an oblong or pear-shaped syconium fruit of a tree (genus Ficus) of the mulberry family
  • b. a tree bearing figs; especially a widely cultivated tree (F. carica) that produces edible figs
• 2. a worthless trifle ; the least bit <doesn't care a fig>

II. noun

• Etymology: fig, verb, to adorn
• Date: 1835
• dress, array <a young woman in dazzling royal full fig — Mollie Panter-Downes>

III. abbreviation

• figurative; figuratively; figure

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