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means A fig-family tree, especially the weeping fig and rubber plant species commonly sold as leafy indoor houseplants.

from Simply the Latin word for 'fig tree,' ficus, which Romans used for the actual fruit-bearing fig long before anyone stuck one in a corner near a window with 'good light.' Linnaeus later adopted it as the genus name covering hundreds of species, from fruiting figs to the strangler figs of the tropics — the potted ficus by your couch is a very domesticated, very judgmental relative of trees that once swallowed entire forests.