sycamore (n.)

  1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

    [ Syn: lacewood ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: plane tree , platan ]

  3. 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

    [ Syn: great maple , scottish maple , acer pseudoplatanus ]

  4. 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

    [ Syn: sycamore fig , mulberry fig , ficus sycomorus ]

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