Fig-tree.
It is said that Judas hanged himself on a fig-tree. (See Elder-tree.)
“Quæret aliquisʹquâ ex arʹborë Judas se suspenʹderit? Arbor ficus fuisse diʹcitur.”—Barradius.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.