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sycamore
(encz) | sycamore,javor klen n: [bot.] acer pseudoplatanus Pino |
sycamore
(gcide) | Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. ?, fr. ? broad; --
so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form.
See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.] (Bot.)
Any tree of the genus Platanus.
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Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native
of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching
stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long
pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small
close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and
collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental
plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great
height, is a native of North America, where it is
popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and
buttonball, names also applied to the California
species (Platanus racemosa).
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Sycamore
(gcide) | Sycamore \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. ? the fig mulberry;
? a fig + ? 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.]
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sycamore
(gcide) | Buttonwood \But"ton*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large
tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; --
called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the
United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is
Platanus racemosa.
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sycamore
(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}] |
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sycamore
(encz) | sycamore,javor klen n: [bot.] acer pseudoplatanus Pino |
sycamore fig
(encz) | sycamore fig, n: |
sycamore
(gcide) | Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. ?, fr. ? broad; --
so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form.
See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.] (Bot.)
Any tree of the genus Platanus.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native
of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching
stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long
pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small
close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and
collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental
plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great
height, is a native of North America, where it is
popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and
buttonball, names also applied to the California
species (Platanus racemosa).
[1913 Webster]Sycamore \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. ? the fig mulberry;
? a fig + ? 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]Buttonwood \But"ton*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large
tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; --
called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the
United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is
Platanus racemosa.
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sycamore
(gcide) | Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. ?, fr. ? broad; --
so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form.
See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.] (Bot.)
Any tree of the genus Platanus.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native
of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching
stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long
pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small
close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and
collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental
plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great
height, is a native of North America, where it is
popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and
buttonball, names also applied to the California
species (Platanus racemosa).
[1913 Webster]Sycamore \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. ? the fig mulberry;
? a fig + ? 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]Buttonwood \But"ton*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large
tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; --
called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the
United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is
Platanus racemosa.
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sycamore maple
(gcide) | Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol;
akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G.
massholder.] (Bot.)
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species.
Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple,
from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in
great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or {swamp
maple} is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, {Acer
dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the {striped
maple}, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The
common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the {sycamore
maple} is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is
Acer platanoides.
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Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
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Bird's-eye maple, Curled maple, varieties of the wood of
the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is
produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
Maple honey, Maple molasses, Maple syrup, or {Maple
sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
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american sycamore
(wn) | American sycamore
n 1: very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central
North America to Mexico [syn: American sycamore,
American plane, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis] |
arizona sycamore
(wn) | Arizona sycamore
n 1: medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having
deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to
5 [syn: Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii] |
california sycamore
(wn) | California sycamore
n 1: tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and
large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped
clusters of flowers [syn: California sycamore, {Platanus
racemosa}] |
sycamore
(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}] |
sycamore fig
(wn) | sycamore fig
n 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 [syn: sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig,
Ficus sycomorus] |
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