"sycamore" in the noun sense

1. sycamore, lacewood

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

2. plane tree, sycamore, platan

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

3. sycamore, great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus

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

4. sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus

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

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