Crossword-Solution: FICUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ficus | n. | A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FICUS | anagram | SUFIC |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
AEONCR
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with FICUS (5)
The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself ....It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches.
The palm, the pine, the oak, the banian, or bo, and many other species of trees, have, at different times, and by various nations, been invested with divine honors; but, in oriental countries, by far the most sacred among them is the Ficus Religiosa, or the holy bo tree of India.
Forlong assures us that the oak was even more worshipped at the West than was the sacred Ficus at the East.
The genus _Ficus_ abounds with caoutchouc, and we may conclude from the facts just given that this substance, at first in solution and ultimately modified into an unelastic cement, {187} is used by the _Ficus repens_ to cement its rootlets to any surface which it ascends.
The monkey made as many in the rear, but this time, instead of plunging more deeply into the forest, he stopped at the foot of an enormous ficus--the tree of which the different kinds are so numerous all over the Upper Amazon basin.
Quotes with FICUS (2)
Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.
My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).