fig
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A soft sweet fruit shaped like a drop, with dark skin and a pink inside full of tiny seeds, often sold dried.
She put fresh figs and soft cheese on the plate.
Dried figs are sweeter than fresh ones and keep for months.
We ate figs straight from the tree in the garden.
Cut the fig in half and you will see pink seeds.
Common collocations: dried figs · fresh figs · a fig tree · fig jam · fig leaf
Forms
- plural
- figs