|  sycamore 
 
 1. 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
 • Syn:
 great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus
 • Hypernyms:
 maple
 2. 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
 • Syn:
 sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus
 • Hypernyms:
 fig tree
 • Member Holonyms:
 Ficus, genus Ficus
 3. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
 • Syn:
 lacewood
 • Hypernyms:
 wood
 • Substance Holonyms:
 plane tree, platan
 4. 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
 • Syn:
 plane tree, platan
 • Hypernyms:
 tree
 • Hyponyms:
 London plane, Platanus acerifolia, American sycamore, American plane, buttonwood,
 buttonwood, oriental plane, Platanus orientalis, California sycamore, Platanus racemosa,
 Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii
 • Member Holonyms:
 Platanus, genus Platanus
 • Substance Meronyms:
 lacewood
 
 
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