arch. [ad. Gr. σὐκάμῖνον mulberry, -ος mulberry tree (late L. sycamīnus), ad. Heb. shiqmah (Aram. pl. shiqmīn), with assimilation to σῦκον fig.] The common black mulberry, Morus nigra.
1526. Tindale, Luke xvii. 6. Yf ye … shulde saye vnto thys sycamyne tree [so 1611] plucke thy silfe vppe by the rotes and plant thy silfe in the see.
[1849. Balfour, Man. Bot., § 1023. The Mulberry is the συκαμινος, or Sycamine-tree of the New Testament.]
