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 syc·a·more /ˈsɪkəˌmor, ˌmɔr/
 小無花果樹,楓樹的一種

 Syc·a·more n.  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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 sycamore
      n 1: variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic
           wood of a sycamore tree [syn: lacewood]
      2: 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 [syn: plane tree, platan]
      3: 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 [syn: great maple, scottish maple, Acer
         pseudoplatanus]
      4: 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 [syn: sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus
         sycomorus]

 Sycamore
    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.