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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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;
[syn: sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sycamore \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. ? the fig mulberry; ? a fig + ? the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin: cf. F. sycomore. Cf. Mulberry.] (Bot.) (a) A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. (b) The American plane tree, or buttonwood. (c) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus). [Written sometimes sycomore.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Ficus sycomorus n 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 [syn: sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus]