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 sycamore sycamore /ˈsɪkəˌmɔr/

noun

  1. 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  ( Ficus sycomorus , mulberry fig , sycamore , 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
  2. 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  ( Acer pseudoplatanus , great maple , scottish maple , sycamore )
    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
  3. [ N. American] 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  ( plane tree , platan , sycamore [ N. American] )
    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
  4. Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree  ( lacewood , sycamore )
    variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree