noun
- Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree.
- synonyms: lacewood
- 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
- 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: great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus
- 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: sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus
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