sycamore
Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus…Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.
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Meaning
3 senses(US, countable, uncountable)Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.
Platane
плата́нplatán, чинарčinar
платанplatan
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
(UK, countable, uncountable)A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
(countable, uncountable)A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.
Maulbeerfeige, Maulbeer-Feige, Sykomore
Examples
5 sentencesHow high does a sycamore grow?
The road was flanked by century-old sycamore trees.
ruДорога была окаймлена столетними платанами.
The road was lined with hundred-year-old sycamores.
ruДорога была окаймлена столетними платанами.
Sycamore is a common tree and one of the largest in the eastern deciduous forests.
She led the way round the house to where tea was spread under the shade of a large sycamore.
Translations
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Origin
Circa 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, fromCirca 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, literally “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”).
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Forms
plural: sycamoresSynonyms
14 synonyms- 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:sycamore figmulberry figFicus sycomorus
- 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:great maplescottish mapleAcer pseudoplatanus
- variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree: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:plane treeplatan
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