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nounthick-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
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nounany 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
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nounvariably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
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nounEurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
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tree wood maple ficus sycomorus mulberry fig sycamore fig fig tree plane tree platan american sycamore arizona sycamore buttonwood california sycamore american plane london plane oriental plane platanus acerifolia platanus occidentalis platanus orientalis platanus racemosa platanus wrightii lacewood acer pseudoplatanus great maple scottish maple