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; distinct from the SYCAMORE (; Septuagint in Old Testament translated the latter however sycamine, meaning the Egyptian sycamine). The sycamine is the mulberry tree (morus) cultivated for supplying food for the silkworm caterpillars. Slow growing; but attaining large size, and stretching deep roots, so that it would require strong force to "pluck it up by the root."