FICUS AUREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ficus aurea mean? 

• FICUS AUREA (noun)
  The noun FICUS AUREA has 1 sense:

1. a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

  Familiarity information: FICUS AUREA used as a noun is very rare.

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• FICUS AUREA (noun)

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Meaning:

A strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ficus aurea; Florida strangler fig; golden fig; strangler fig; wild fig

Hypernyms ("Ficus aurea" is a kind of...):

fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)

Holonyms ("Ficus aurea" is a member of...):

Ficus; genus Ficus (large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees)