How To Use caprifig In A Sentence
- Some erroneously assert that all fish are female except in the cartilaginous fishes, for they think that the females of fish differ from what are supposed to be males only in the same way as in those plants where the one bears fruit but the other is fruitless, as olive and oleaster, fig and caprifig. On the Generation of Animals
- The caprifig, whose syconia are generally considered to be inedible, is the wild fig of Asia Minor.
- Excessive pollination by fig wasps from a nearby caprifig tree caused the syconium to split open.
- Some erroneously assert that all fish are female except in the cartilaginous fishes, for they think that the females of fish differ from what are supposed to be males only in the same way as in those plants where the one bears fruit but the other is fruitless, as olive and oleaster, fig and caprifig. On the Generation of Animals
- For there is a slight distinction of this sort, since even in plants we find in the same kind some trees which bear fruit and others which, while bearing none themselves, yet contribute to the ripening of the fruits of those which do, as in the case of the fig-tree and caprifig. On the Generation of Animals
