FICUS
What does "FICUS" mean?
A genus of tropical trees and shrubs including figs and many houseplants.
Meanings
- Any plant of the genus Ficus, which includes fig trees, the rubber plant, and the weeping fig. The lobby's tall ficus dropped half its leaves the week the heating broke.
Did you know?
- Most Ficus species are locked into a partnership with a single matching kind of fig wasp - the wasp pollinates the fig from the inside, and neither can reproduce without the other.
Word origin
Directly from Latin 'ficus' meaning fig tree or fig, the same root that gives English 'fig'.
Remember it
FICUS = FIg + cUS; the fig tree is its most famous member.
A little poem
Glossy leaves indoors-
a jungle pressed to a pot,
remembering rain.
haiku
What it teaches
Even the houseplant on your shelf is a wild thing made patient by walls.
Quick facts
What does FICUS mean?
A genus of tropical trees and shrubs including figs and many houseplants.
Is FICUS a valid word?
Yes — FICUS is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FICUS?
FICUS has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does FICUS come from?
Directly from Latin 'ficus' meaning fig tree or fig, the same root that gives English 'fig'.
What can FICUS teach us?
Even the houseplant on your shelf is a wild thing made patient by walls.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.