sycamore meaning and definition

SYCAMORE noun

Definition of sycamore (noun)

1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
   • synonyms: lacewood
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
   • synonyms: plane tree, platan
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
   • synonyms: Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple
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
   • synonyms: Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig