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Meaning of sycamore

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sycamore
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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