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

Derived forms: sycamore figs

Type of: fig tree

Part of: Ficus, genus Ficus

Encyclopedia: Sycamore fig