sycamore
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig |
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Related Words: fig tree |
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(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn |
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Synonyms: Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple |
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Related Words: maple |
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(noun) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree |
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Synonyms: lacewood |
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Related Words: wood |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: plane tree, platan |
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Related Words: American plane, American sycamore, Arizona sycamore, California sycamore, London plane, Platanus acerifolia, Platanus occidentalis, Platanus orientalis, Platanus racemosa, Platanus wrightii, buttonwood, oriental plane, tree |
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