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sicômoro
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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.

        sicômoro
        1
        There was a thrush singing in the dusk of the sycamore leaves.
        Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
        2
        He took out his sycamore scroll and placed it by the candle.
        The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
        3
        Maybe the church, with the sycamore growing from within, had been haunted.
        The Alchemist
        4
        Perhaps it was a boyish feeling that took me to the sycamore.
        Montlivet
        5
        The solitary sycamore in the ravine is known as Robin Hood's Tree.
        The Guardian
        1
        Those sycamore figs belong to the low and warm situations; this is the proper place for them.
        Daisy in the Field
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