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fig
     1. n. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
     2. n. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
     3. n. A small piece of tobacco.
     4. n. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
     5. v. (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
     6. v. (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
     7. v. (soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
     8. v. (intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
     9. n. (abbreviation of figure) (diagram or illustration)
     10. v. (rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of: to perform figging upon.

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Example Sentences

My chest had become softer than the fig tree's fruit and my heart had become more fragile than the fig tree's leaves. 



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