Sycamore Definition & Meaning

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

"Sycamore" in song lyrics

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  • "brian bemis of sycamore"
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  • "preschools in sycamore"
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  • "ben franklin sycamore"
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