Search Result:sycamore
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋsIkәˏmor,-ˏmɒr 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊsikәmɒː 〕
Overview of noun sycamore
The noun sycamore has 4 senses
- sycamore, lacewood -- (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)