SYCAMORE FIG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sycamore fig mean? 

• SYCAMORE FIG (noun)
  The noun SYCAMORE FIG has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SYCAMORE FIG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYCAMORE FIG (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ficus sycomorus; mulberry fig; sycamore fig; sycamore

Hypernyms ("sycamore fig" is a kind of...):

fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)

Holonyms ("sycamore fig" is a member of...):

Ficus; genus Ficus (large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees)