Sycamore - Definition

n 1: variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough
elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: sycamore,
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 [syn: plane tree, sycamore,
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 [syn: sycamore, great maple, scottish
maple, Acer pseudoplatanus]
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 [syn:
sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus
sycomorus]