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Sycamore
//ˈsɪkəmoɹ// name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama.
- 2 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Colusa County, California.
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; Former name of Herndon, California.
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Turner County, Georgia.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of DeKalb County, Illinois.
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Howard County, Indiana.
- 8 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kansas.
- 9 A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
- 10 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri.
- 11 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Wyandot County, Ohio.
- 12 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
- 13 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
- 14 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Allendale County, South Carolina.
- 15 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia.
- 16 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
- 17 A number of places in the United States:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Sycamore Township.
Noun
- 1 Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses. US, countable, uncountable
"Stars shining bright above you / Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you / Birds singin' in the sycamore trees"
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple. British, countable, uncountable
"The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore / Still bear young leaflets half the summer through"
- 4 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 wordnet
- 5 A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria. countable, uncountable
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- 6 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 wordnet
- 7 variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree wordnet
Etymology
Circa 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, literally “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”). In the 16th c. applied to the European maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), in the early 19th c. to various plane tree species introduced to North America, perhaps in analogy to their shadiness.
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