noun
thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
• Syn: ↑sycamore, ↑mulberry fig, ↑Ficus sycomorus
• Hypernyms: ↑fig tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ficus, ↑genus Ficus
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nounsee sycamore 1
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sycamore fig,
a fig tree of Egypt, Syria, and surrounding areas.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.