sycamore

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A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig and found in Egypt and Syria; also called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry; the Biblical sycomore
Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple
{n} a tree, the maple, and by some the name is given to the button wood
A sycamore or a sycamore tree is a tree that has yellow flowers and large leaves with five points. Sycamore is the wood of this tree. The furniture is made of sycamore, beech and leather. Any of several distinct trees called by the same name though in different genera and families. In the U.S. the term refers to the American plane tree or buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis), a hardy street tree. The sycamore maple, or mock plane (Acer pseudoplatanus), is sometimes also called simply sycamore. The biblical sycamore, actually the sycamore fig (Ficus sycomorus), was used by the ancient Egyptians to make mummy cases
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
It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture
Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus (buttonwood), especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)
The American plane tree, or buttonwood
{i} buttonwood, any of a number of North American deciduous trees having rounded fruits and a flaky outer bark; Eurasian deciduous maple tree; fig tree native to Africa and southwest Asia
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
A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig
A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus)
variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
sycamore maple
The British and European sycamore tree, Acer pseudoplatanus
american sycamore
very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
arizona sycamore
medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5
california sycamore
tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
sycomore
a type of fig, Ficus sycomorus, native to the Middle East; the sycamore tree of the Bible
sycamore

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    Türkische aussprache

    sîkımôr

    Aussprache

    /ˈsəkəˌmôr/ /ˈsɪkəˌmɔːr/

    Etymologie

    [ 'si-k&-"mOr, -"mor ] (noun.) 14th century. c.1350, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek συκόμορος (sūkomoros, “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sukon, “fig”) + μόρον (moron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקמָה (shiqmah, “mulberry”).
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