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Keywords:
Fig,
Sycamine,
Sycomorus,
Buttonwood,
Tree
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.
The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
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
a type of tree
probably introduced by the Romans these trees are very common throughout Britain.
Sycamore is a name applied at various times and places to three very different types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms.
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