Fig vs Sycamore - What's the difference?
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A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
A small piece of tobacco.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
(US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus'', especially ''Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).
(British) 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.
As nouns the difference between fig and sycamore
is that fig is a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics while sycamore is any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).As a verb fig
is to insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.fig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fige, fygge (also fyke, from (etyl) )Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis , volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100. Another (etyl) root (compare (etyl) ; whence (etyl) sycophant.Noun
(en noun)- I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
Derived terms
* caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a figVerb
(figg)- When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.