Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - sycamore

 noun  Etymology: Middle English sicamour, from Anglo-French sicamour, from Latin sycomorus, from Greek sykomoros, probably modification of a Semitic word akin to Hebrew shiqmah ~  Date: 14th century  1. (also sycomore) a fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) of Africa and the Middle East that is the ~ of Scripture and has edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig  2. a Eurasian maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) with long racemes of showy yellowish-green flowers that is widely planted as a shade tree  3. plane II; especially a very large spreading tree (Platanus occidentalis) chiefly of the eastern and central United States with 3- to 5-lobed broadly ovate leaves