sycamore sycamore /ˈsɪkəˌmɔr/

noun

1. 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  ( Ficus sycomorus , mulberry fig , sycamore , sycamore fig )
   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
   
   
2. 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  ( Acer pseudoplatanus , great maple , scottish maple , sycamore )
   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
   
   
3. [ N. American] 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 tree , platan , sycamore [ N. American] )
   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
   
   
4. Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree  ( lacewood , sycamore )
   variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree