Synonyms of SYCAMORES

noun

1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

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2. 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

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   Also: plane tree.

3. 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

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   Also: great maple, scottish maple, acer pseudoplatanus.

4. 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

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   Also: sycamore fig, mulberry fig, ficus sycomorus.