sycamore

noun

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

   noun.plant

   Synonyms lacewood

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.plant

   Synonyms plane tree platan

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.plant

   Synonyms acer pseudoplatanus great maple scottish maple

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.plant

   Synonyms ficus sycomorus mulberry fig sycamore fig

   Source: WordNet 3.0

5. A large tree (<i>Ficus Sycomorus</i>) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

   noun

   Source: webster1913