Sycamore

['sɪkəmɔː] or ['sɪkəmɔr]

Definition

(noun.) 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.

(noun.) 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.

(noun.) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) The American plane tree, or buttonwood.

(n.) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus).

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [U. S.] Plane-tree, button-wood, button-ball tree, water-beech (Platanus Occidentalis).

Typist: Michael

Definition

n. a fruit-tree of the fig family common in Palestine &c.: a species of maple in Scotland usually called plane-tree: in America the native plane.

Edited by Della