(n) 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.Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple
(n) 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 fig, Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n. [ L. sycomorus, Gr. &unr_; the fig mulberry; &unr_; a fig + &unr_; the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin: cf. F. sycomore. Cf. Mulberry. ] (Bot.) (a) A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. (b) The American plane tree, or buttonwood. (c) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus). [ Written sometimes sycomore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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