Fig Fruit Mauve

Fig

The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Moraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, and to western and southern Asia. It has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world. Ficus carica is the type species of the genus Ficus, which comprises over 800 tropical and subtropical plant species.

Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (angiosperms) that is formed from the ovary after flowering.

Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

fig

Noun

1. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

Verb

1. To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.
2. To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.

fruit

Noun

1. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically.

Verb

1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

mauve

Noun

1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

1. Having a pale purple colour.