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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.
Group relationships: Genus Platanus, Platanus
Terms within: Lacewood
Specialized synonyms: London Plane, Platanus Acerifolia, American Plane, American Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus Occidentalis, Oriental Plane, Platanus Orientalis, California Sycamore, Platanus Racemosa, Arizona Sycamore, Platanus Wrightii
Generic synonyms: Tree
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.
Group relationships: Ficus, Genus Ficus
Generic synonyms: Fig Tree
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
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