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sycamore

DEFINITIONS OF: sycamore

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n 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

Synonyms:
plane tree, platan
Types:
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London plane, Platanus acerifolia
very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree
American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, buttonwood
very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
Platanus orientalis, oriental plane
large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor
California sycamore, Platanus racemosa
tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii
medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

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

Synonyms:
lacewood
Type of:
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

n 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

Synonyms:
Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple
Type of:
maple
any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

n 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

Synonyms:
Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig
Type of:
fig tree
any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature
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