Definition of Sycamore fig

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Ficus Sycomorus, Mulberry Fig, Sycamore
Group relationships: Ficus, Genus Ficus
Generic synonyms: Fig Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sycamore Fig

sybbes
sybil
sybilline
sybils
sybo
syboe
syboes
sybotic
sybotism
sybotisms
sybow
sybows
sycamine
sycamines
sycamore
sycamore fig (current term)
sycamore maple
sycamores
syce
sycee
sycees
syces
sycite
sycites
sycoceric acid
sycoceryl
sycock
sycomore
sycomore fig
sycomore figs

Literary usage of Sycamore fig

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"White sycamore, one of the Australian nutmegs, Cryptocarya obovata, a large tree with useful soft white wood. sycamore-fig (sik'amör-fig), «. ..."

2. The Land of the Monuments: Notes of Egyptian Travel by Joseph Pollard (1898)
"... sycamore-fig tree—The tradition—Balm of Gilead—An ostrich farm—On, An, Heliopolis—The Obelisk —University—Temple of the ..."

3. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Hence the frequent mention of the palm, the fig, the olive, the cinnamon, the camphor, the cypress, the sycamore fig, and the plane. ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"White sycamore, one of the Australian nutmegs, Cryptocarya obovata, a large tree with useful soft white wood. sycamore-fig (sik'amör-fig), «. ..."

5. The Land of the Monuments: Notes of Egyptian Travel by Joseph Pollard (1898)
"... sycamore-fig tree—The tradition—Balm of Gilead—An ostrich farm—On, An, Heliopolis—The Obelisk —University—Temple of the ..."

6. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Hence the frequent mention of the palm, the fig, the olive, the cinnamon, the camphor, the cypress, the sycamore fig, and the plane. ..."

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