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sycamore
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sycamore has 4 senses
- sycamore(n = noun.plant) lacewood - variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree; Array is a kind of wood
- sycamore(n = noun.plant) plane tree, platan - any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits; Array is a member of genus platanus, platanus
- sycamore(n = noun.plant) acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple - Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn; Array is a kind of maple
- sycamore(n = noun.plant) ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig - thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore; Array is a member of ficus, genus ficus
has particulars: london plane, platanus acerifolia, american plane, american sycamore, buttonwood, platanus occidentalis, oriental plane, platanus orientalis, california sycamore, platanus racemosa, arizona sycamore, platanus wrightii
is a kind of tree
is a kind of fig tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
sycamore, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. the fig mulberry; a fig + the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin: cf. F. sycomore. Cf. Mulberry.].
A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus ) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sycamore, n.
1 (in full sycamore maple) a a large maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, with winged seeds, grown for its shade and timber. b its wood.
2 US the plane-tree or its wood.
3 Bibl. a fig-tree, Ficus sycomorus, growing in Egypt, Syria, etc.
1 (in full sycamore maple) a a large maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, with winged seeds, grown for its shade and timber. b its wood.
2 US the plane-tree or its wood.
3 Bibl. a fig-tree, Ficus sycomorus, growing in Egypt, Syria, etc.
Etymology
var. of SYCOMORE
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