Fig vs. Banyan: What's the Difference?
Fig and Banyan Definitions
Fig
Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit.
Banyan
A tropical Indian fig tree (Ficus benghalensis), often widely spreading because of the many aerial roots that descend from the branches and develop into additional trunks. It is planted for ornament and shade.
Fig
The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having many tiny seedlike fruits.
Banyan
An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
Fig
Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.
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Banyan
A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
Fig
The fruit of such a plant.
Banyan
A type of loose gown worn in India.
Fig
A trivial or contemptible amount
Not worth a fig.
Banyan
(India) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
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Fig
Dress; array
In full fig.
Banyan
A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.
Fig
Physical condition; shape
In fine fig.
Banyan
A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Fig
To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
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Banyan
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
Fig
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
Banyan
A loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India
Fig
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
Fig
To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
Fig
(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
Fig
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
Fig
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
Fig
A small piece of tobacco.
Fig
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
Fig
A raisin (dried grape)
Fig
The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
Fig
A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
Fig
The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
Fig
A small piece of tobacco.
Fig
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; - used in scorn or contempt.
Fig
Figure; dress; array.
Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras?
Fig
To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me likeThe bragging Spaniard.
Fig
To put into the head of, as something useless o contemptible.
Fig
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Fig
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
Fig
A Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
Fig
Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
