sycamore Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
    lacewood.
  2. noun 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
    platan; plane tree.
  3. noun 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
    great maple; Acer pseudoplatanus; scottish maple.
  4. 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
    mulberry fig; sycamore fig; Ficus sycomorus.

WordNet

Syc"a*more noun
Etymology
L. sycomorus, Gr. the fig mulberry; a fig + the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin: cf. F. sycomore. Cf. Mulberry.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913