Learning, Food Resource [http://food.oregonstate.edu/], Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

What is a fig?

is a soft pear-shaped fruit with sweet dark flesh and many small seeds, eaten fresh or dried. -
ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French figue, from Provencal fig(u)a, based on Latin ficus

Grimes, William. 2004. Eating Your Worlds. Oxford University Press.

Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 2012.