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fig

noun as in multiple fruit

noun as in tinker's damn

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The tiny raised beds in the Blacks’ backyard produced lackluster harvests, if anything at all, because they were tucked under large fig and avocado trees, McLaughlin said.

But scattered across this region’s tree-covered mountains, tobacco fields and orchards of apple and fig, are predominantly Sunni, Christian and Druze towns and villages — most of which are at best ambivalent toward Hezbollah.

These things should be understood more as fig leaves covering up a reactionary agenda.

From Salon

He also grew pears, figs, quinces, lemons and apples — and oranges.

I kiss my husband because he buys me cheese and figs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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