Noun: Ficus sycomorus
- 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