Sycamore
WordNet
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
(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
(3) 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
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Etymology
c.1350, from , from , from , from + . Possibly influenced by .
Noun
- Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).
- A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
- A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig and found in Egypt and Syria; also called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry; the Biblical sycomore.