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I need hardly warn the reader that, properly speaking, it is the “Sycamine which produces the fruit called Syconwrus or fig-mulberry;” but we apply the term “Sycomore” to the tree as well as to its fruit.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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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).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Syconwrus or fig-mulberry; "but we apply the term" Sycomore "to the tree as well as to its fruit.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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