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- noun Plural form of
caprifig .
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They must be grown alongside a separate and inedible crop of “caprifigs,” from which the wasps obtain fig pollen and lay their eggs.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They must be grown alongside a separate and inedible crop of “caprifigs,” from which the wasps obtain fig pollen and lay their eggs.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Caprification: is that method or process through which the Smyrna figs are fertilized by Blastophaga throughthe medium of wild, inedible or "caprifigs."
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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