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sycamore fig

DEFINITIONS OF: sycamore fig

1

n 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

Synonyms:
Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore
Type of:
fig tree
any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature
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