sycomoreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkəmɔː(ɹ)/
• Homophone: sycamore

名詞

sycomore (複数形 sycomores)

1. A type of fig, Ficus sycomorus, native to the Middle East; the sycamore tree of the Bible.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Kings 10:27:

     And the king made siluer to be in Ierusalem as stones, and Cedars made he to be as the Sycomore trees, that are in the vale for abundance.

   • 1873, Henry Baker Tristram, The Natural History of the Bible, page 398:

     The Sycomore was and is one of the common trees of Egypt, and its wood was employed for the manufacture of mummy cases, and for doors, boxes, and all articles of furniture. […] So valuable was this tree that David appointed a special overseer “over the olive trees and sycomore trees that were in the low plains” (1 Chron. xxvii. 28) […]

同意語

• fig-mulberry
• sycamore fig
• sycomore fig

参考

• sycamore

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