sycamore (redirected from sycomore figs)

syc·a·more  (sk-môr, -mr) n. 1. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Platanus, especially P. occidentalis of eastern North America, having palmately lobed leaves, ball-like, nodding, hairy fruit clusters, and bark that flakes off in large colorful patches. Also called buttonball, buttonwood. 2. A Eurasian deciduous maple tree (Acer pseudoplatanus) having palmately lobed leaves, winged fruits, and greenish flowers. 3. A fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) of Africa and adjacent southwest Asia, mentioned in the Bible, having clusters of figs borne on short leafless twigs. [Middle English sicamour, a kind of fig tree, from Old French sicamor, from Latin scomorus, from Greek skomoros, perhaps of Semitic origin; see qm in Semitic roots.]

sycamore American sycamore Platanus occidentalis

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sycamore

Noun

1. a tree with five-pointed leaves and two-winged fruits

2. US & Canad an American plane tree [Latin sycomorus]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sycamore - variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree lacewood 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
	2.	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 plane tree, platan 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
	3.	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 Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple maple - any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
	4.	sycamore - 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 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

Translations

sycamore [ˈsɪkəmɔːʳ] n → sicomoro

sycamore [ˈsɪkəmɔːʳ] n → sycomore m

sycamore [ˈsɪkəmɔːʳ] n → Bergahorn m

sycamore [ˈsɪkəmɔːʳ] n → sicomoro