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Noun: Ficus sycomorus
  1. 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
    "Zacchaeus climbed a Ficus sycomorus to see Jesus pass by";
    - sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig

Type of: fig tree

Part of: Ficus, genus Ficus

Encyclopedia: Ficus sycomorus