The first or early crop of figs produced in late spring, before the main summer crop; also called a breba fig.
From Spanish 'breba' (possibly from Portuguese 'breba'), which comes from a pre-Romance Mediterranean language, likely related to early fruit cultivation in the Iberian Peninsula.
Fig trees are so productive they often produce two completely separate crops in one year—the breba ripens in early summer, then the tree produces an entirely new set of figs for fall harvest.
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