SYCAMORE

sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus

(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

sycamore, great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus

(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

sycamore, lacewood

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

sycamore (countable and uncountable, plural sycamores)

(US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).

(British) 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.

Synonyms

• planetree

Coordinate terms

• buttonwood

• sycomore

Source: Wiktionary

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Syc"a*more, n. Etym: [L. sycomorus, Gr. 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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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