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 mulberry fig to see Jesus pass by";
   - sycamore, sycamore fig, Ficus sycomorus

Derived forms: mulberry figs

Type of: fig tree

Part of: Ficus, genus Ficus