sycamore

sycamore: see plane tree.

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sycamore

Any of several distinct trees called by the same name though in different genera and families. In the U.S. the term refers to the American plane tree or buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis), a hardy street tree. The sycamore maple, or mock plane (Acer pseudoplatanus), is sometimes also called simply sycamore. The biblical sycamore, actually the sycamore fig (Ficus sycomorus), was used by the ancient Egyptians to make mummy cases.

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sycamore

1. a Eurasian maple tree, Acer pseudoplatanus, naturalized in Britain and North America, having five-lobed leaves, yellow flowers, and two-winged fruits

2. US and Canadian an American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis

3. a moraceous tree, Ficus sycomorus, of N Africa and W Asia, having an edible figlike fruit

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sycamore [′sik·ə‚mȯr]

(botany)

Any of several species of deciduous trees of the genusPlatanus,especiallyP. occidentalisof eastern and central North America, distinguished by simple, large, three-to five-lobed leaves and spherical fruit heads.

The Eurasian maple (Acer pseudoplatanus).

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sycamore

symbolizes inquisitiveness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]

See : Curiosity