NOUN | plant | mulberry fig, sycamore, sycamore fig, Ficus sycomorus | thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground |
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Meaning | 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. | |
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Synonyms | sycamore, sycamore fig, Ficus sycomorus | |
Member of | Ficus, genus Ficus | large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees |
Broader | fig tree | Any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus |
Spanish | ficus sycomorus, Ficus sycomorus, sicomoro, sicómoro | |
Catalan | ficus sycomorus, sicòmor |
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