fikus

Latin: ‘Ficus’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun forms

  1. Trees: any variety of Ficus; any tree-like parasitic plant that grows over and eventually structurally replaces a host tree: to be distinguished from vines, rop, and plaua, or orchids, epiphytes etc.

  1. Trees: a rubber tree (obsolete).
    blut bilong fikus rubber
    katim skin bilong fikus to tap a rubber tree

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