marisca

mărisca, ae, f., a large inferior kind of fig.

• I Lit.: pingues mariscae, Col. 10, 415: fatua, Mart. 7, 25, 7; in apposition with ficus, Cato R. R. 8 (also in Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 72); so, mariscae fici, Varr. ap. Non. 550, 31.—*
• II Transf., the piles: tumidae mariscae, Juv. 2, 13.