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Noun sycamore has 4 senses
  1. sycamore, lacewood - variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
    --1 is a kind of wood
    --1 is a substance of plane tree, sycamore, platan
  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
    --2 is a kind of tree
    --2 is a member of Platanus, genus Platanus
    --2 has substances: sycamore, lacewood
    --2 has particulars:
     London plane, Platanus acerifolia; American sycamore, American plane, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis; oriental plane, Platanus orientalis; California sycamore, Platanus racemosa; Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii
  3. sycamore, great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus - Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
    --3 is a kind of maple
  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
    --4 is a kind of fig tree
    --4 is a member of Ficus, genus Ficus
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