Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sycamore

4 senses of sycamore

Sense 1
sycamore, lacewood -- (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2
plane tree, sycamore, platan -- (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)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Sense 3
sycamore, great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus -- (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)
       => maple -- (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

Sense 4
sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus -- (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)
       => fig tree -- (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)