sycamore
Nouns
- (n) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree lacewood,
- (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 plane tree, platan,
- (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 Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple,
- (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 Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig,