Meaning of SYCAMORE
| Pronunciation: | | 'siku`mowr
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- [n] 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
- [n] 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
- [n] any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
- [n] variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
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| | Synonyms: | | Acer pseudoplatanus, Ficus sycomorus, great maple, mulberry fig, plane tree, platan, scottish maple, sycamore fig |
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| | See Also: | | American plane, American sycamore, Arizona sycamore, buttonwood, California sycamore, Ficus, fig tree, genus Ficus, genus Platanus, lacewood, London plane, maple, oriental plane, Platanus, Platanus acerifolia, Platanus occidentalis, Platanus orientalis, Platanus racemosa, Platanus wrightii, sycamore, tree, wood | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}.]
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | more properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus). At Jericho, Zacchaeus climbed a sycomore-tree to see Jesus as he passed by (Luke 19:4). This tree was easily destroyed by frost (Ps. 78:47), and therefore it is found mostly in the "vale" (1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chr. 1:15: in both passages the R.V. has properly "lowland"), i.e., the "low country," the shephelah, where the climate is mild. Amos (7:14) refers to its fruit, which is of an inferior character; so also probably Jeremiah (24:2). It is to be distinguished from our sycamore (the Acer pseudo-platanus), which is a species of maple often called a plane-tree. |
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