sycamine

American  

[sik-uh-min, -mahyn] / ˈsɪk ə mɪn, -ˌmaɪn /

noun

1. a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.

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sycamine British  

/ ˈsɪkəˌmaɪn /

noun

1. a mulberry tree mentioned in the Bible, thought to be the black mulberry, Morus nigra

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Etymology

Origin of sycamine

1520–30; < Latin sȳcamīnus < Greek sȳkámīnos < Semitic; compare Hebrew shiqmāh mulberry tree, sycamore ( Greek form with ȳ influenced by sŷkon fig)

Example Sentences

But Andreas the physician says that there are loaves in Sicily made of the sycamine, and that those who eat them lose their hair and become bald.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Phanias of Eresus, the pupil of Aristotle, calls the fruit of the wild sycamine μόρον, or mulberry, being a fruit of the greatest sweetness and delicacy when it is ripe.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

There seems in this to be something as remarkable as if Mr. Müller had commanded a sycamine tree to be removed and planted in the sea, and it had obeyed him.

From The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller by Wayland, H. L. (Heman Lincoln)

If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, 'Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea'; and it would obey you.

From His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by Barton, William Eleazar