Definitions For Sycamore

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
• A tree of the eastern and central U.S. that has light-brown bark that peels off in thin flakes
• A type of European maple tree with five-pointed leaves