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SYCAMORE FIG
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I. (noun)
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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
Synonyms:
Ficus sycomorus; mulberry fig; sycamore; sycamore fig
Classified under:
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)
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