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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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sycamore Fig

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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