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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

  • 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

  • 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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