How to say "fig" in Japanese

• いちじく
  nounThe word for the fig itself — the fruit (Ficus carica) or the tree. Usually written in kana rather than with kanji. This is the word you want for figs as food or plants.
  イエスは答こたえて言いわれた。「あなたがいちぢくの木きの下したにいるのを見みた、と私が言いったので、あなたは信しんじるのですか」↗

  Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree."
• 無花果果いちじくか
  nounA technical botanical term for the syconium, the hollow fruit structure typical of figs; it names the structure rather than the fruit as food, so it is seldom the word you want for plain 'fig'.
• 無花果状果いちじくじょうか
  nounA technical botanical term, literally 'fig-shaped fruit', for a syconium — a fruit of the fig type; like 無花果果, it belongs to botanical description rather than to talk about figs as food.

Choose 「いちじく」 for the fig itself — the fruit or the tree; 無花果果 and 無花果状果 are technical botanical terms for the syconium, the fig's distinctive fruit structure, not words for figs as food.

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• いちじくcommon fig (Ficus carica)
• 無花果果いちじくかfig
• 無花果状果いちじくじょうかfig