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noun
- (context, US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus w:Platanus, Platanus (buttonwood), especially Platanus occidentalis (w:American sycamore, American sycamore).
- (context, UK) A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
- A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig and found in Egypt and Syria; also called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry; the Biblical sycomore.
Translations: - French: érable sycomore
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- German: Maulbeer-Feige
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Etymology: c.1350, from sicamor, from sycomorus, from sykomoros, from sykon (fig) + moron (mulberry). Possibly influenced by shiqmah (mulberry).
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