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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.
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The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
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variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
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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
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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
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a type of tree
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probably introduced by the Romans these trees are very common throughout Britain.
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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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