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Definition of Sycamore

1. Noun. Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree.

2. Noun. 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. 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.

4. 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.

Definition of Sycamore

1. 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.

Definition of Sycamore

1. Noun. (American English) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus ''Platanus'', especially ''Platanus occidentalis'' (American sycamore). ¹

2. Noun. (British) A large British and European species of maple, ''Acer pseudoplatanus'', known in North America as the sycamore maple. ¹

3. Noun. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sycamore

1. a North American tree [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sycamore

sybbe sybbes sybil sybilline sybils sybo syboe syboes sybotic sybotism

sybotisms sybow sybows sycamine sycamines sycamore (current term) sycamore fig sycamore maple sycamores syce

sycee sycees syces sycite sycites sycoceric acid sycoceryl sycock sycomore sycomore fig

Literary usage of Sycamore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"Even today, a vestige of this belief can be seen in the custom of women visiting the sycamore when troubled with matrimonial cares. ..."

2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Where, underneath the grove of sycamore That westward ... He never mistakes the sycamore groves of the south for the birch woods of the north. ..."

3. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The sycamore is apparently subject to but few important diseases. ... Klebahn The most common and destructive disease of the sycamore is the leaf- and ..."

4. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The sycamore is apparently subject to but few important diseases. ... Klebahn The most common and destructive disease of the sycamore is the leaf- and ..."

5. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"The greatest production of sycamore lumber is in the central hardwood-states and neighboring Southern States, with Indiana and Missouri leading. ..."

6. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"Even today, a vestige of this belief can be seen in the custom of women visiting the sycamore when troubled with matrimonial cares. ..."

7. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Where, underneath the grove of sycamore That westward ... He never mistakes the sycamore groves of the south for the birch woods of the north. ..."

8. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The sycamore is apparently subject to but few important diseases. ... Klebahn The most common and destructive disease of the sycamore is the leaf- and ..."

9. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The sycamore is apparently subject to but few important diseases. ... Klebahn The most common and destructive disease of the sycamore is the leaf- and ..."

10. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"The greatest production of sycamore lumber is in the central hardwood-states and neighboring Southern States, with Indiana and Missouri leading. ..."

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