About The Word Sycamore
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Sycamore
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What's The Definition Of Sycamore?
[n] 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
[n] Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn [n] 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 [n] variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree Synonyms | Synonyms for Sycamore: Acer pseudoplatanus | Ficus sycomorus | great maple | mulberry fig | plane tree | platan | scottish maple | sycamore fig Related Terms | Find terms related to Sycamore: See Also | American plane | American sycamore | Arizona sycamore | buttonwood | California sycamore | Ficus | fig tree | genus Ficus | genus Platanus | lacewood | London plane | maple | oriental plane | Platanus | Platanus acerifolia | Platanus occidentalis | Platanus orientalis | Platanus racemosa | Platanus wrightii | sycamore | tree | wood Sycamore In Webster's Dictionary \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. ? the fig mulberry;
? a fig + ? the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin:
cf. F. sycomore. Cf. {Mulberry}.] (Bot.)
(a) 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.
(b) The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
(c) A large European species of maple ({Acer
Pseudo-Platanus}). [Written sometimes {sycomore}.]
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