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1. (n.) sycamore
Brit. the sycamore maple.
2. sycamore
a tree, Ficus sycomorus, of the Near East, related to the common fig, bearing an edible fruit: the sycamore of the Bible.
Etymology: (1300–50; < OF < L s&ymacr;comorus < Gk s&ymacr;kómoros < Semitic; cf. Heb shiqmāh sycamore)
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1. (noun) sycamore, lacewood
variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
2. (noun) 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. (noun) 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. (noun) 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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1. (noun) sycamore
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
2. (noun) sycamore
the American plane tree, or buttonwood
3. (noun) sycamore
a large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus)
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