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An oblong to pear-shaped or nearly globose edible fruit of warm regions that is greenish, yellowish to orange, or purple when ripe, that has a thick soft skin enclosing a sweet pulp full of tiny seeds, and that is available commercially chiefly dried.

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  • Noun : to appear at a party in full fig. ,to feel in fine fig
  • Drain figs, reserving 1/4 cup of the simmering liquid.
  • You can tell the figs from the aguacates also by the bees, etc, that the former attract.
  • He found Ruth in the court, splitting figs from a heaped basket, and spreading them to dry in the sun.
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