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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Colusa County, California.
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A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Herndon, California.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Turner County, Georgia.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of DeKalb County, Illinois.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Howard County, Indiana.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wyandot County, Ohio.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Allendale County, South Carolina.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Sycamore Township.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: planetree, plane
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noun
A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
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Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: originally
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Synonyms: sycomore, sycomore fig, fig-mulberry
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus
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Broader terms: fig tree
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus
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Broader terms: maple
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
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Synonyms: plane tree, platan
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Broader terms: tree
Narrower terms: London plane, Platanus acerifolia, American sycamore, American plane, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis, oriental plane, Platanus orientalis, California sycamore, Platanus racemosa, Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii
noun
variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lacewood
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Broader terms: wood
History
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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