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known to
transmit any
diseases harmful to humans. When a
caprifig ripens,
another caprifig must be
ready to be pollinated. In
temperate climes, wasps...
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without knowing whether they
crawled into a
caprifig or a fig. If the
female wasp
crawls into the
caprifig, she can
successfully lay her eggs and die....
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Italian has fico,
directly derived from
Latin ficus. The name of the
caprifig,
Ficus caprificus Risso, is
derived both from
Latin caper,
genitive capri...
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recorded in his
History of
Animals that the
fruits of the wild fig (the
caprifig)
contain psenes (fig wasps);
these begin life as
grubs (larvae), and the...
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caprifigs (male figs) and
their availability to
receive eggs and
become pollinated.
Spring caprifigs usually produce more
wasps than
winter caprifigs...
- goat cabriole, cabriolet, caper, capreolate, capric, Capricorn, caprid,
caprifig, capriform, caprigenous, caprine,
capriole †capellus capell- †capreolus...
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thousands of tiny
seeds with
pollen from the
inedible caprifig fruit.
Robson successfully grafted caprifig twigs to his
Smyrna trees, and
proved the theory...
- a
plant parasitic nematode in the
genus Schistonchus parasitizing the
caprifig (Ficus
carica sylvestris). It is
found in
Spain and Italy. Blastophaga...
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genus Ficus,
which includes the
edible fig. He
wrote early reports on
caprifigs (so-called
inedible figs), the
Kadota fig, and
general fig culture. After...
- Sospita.
Pliny notes that the wild fig (called caprificus, "goat-fig,
caprifig,"
because it was food for goats)
spawns "flies" or fig
wasps called ficarii...
