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Noun: sycamore fig
  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
    - sycamore, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus

Derived forms: sycamore figs

Type of: fig tree

Part of: Ficus, genus Ficus

Encyclopedia: Sycamore fig