| sycamore | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. lacewood, sycamore | variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree. |
| ~ plane tree, platan, sycamore | 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. |
| ~ wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| n. (plant) | 2. plane tree, platan, sycamore | 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. |
| ~ genus platanus, platanus | genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore. |
| ~ lacewood, sycamore | variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree. |
| ~ london plane, platanus acerifolia | very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree. |
| ~ american plane, american sycamore, buttonwood, platanus occidentalis | very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico. |
| ~ oriental plane, platanus orientalis | 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. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| n. (plant) | 3. acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple, sycamore | 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. |
| ~ maple | any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone. |
| n. (plant) | 4. ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore, sycamore fig | 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. |
| ~ ficus, genus ficus | large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees. |
| ~ 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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