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Tree on borders of Surrey appeared full of gold
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sycamore
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: lacewood ] 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 [syn: ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 185 Housing Units (2000): 93 Land area (2000): 3.171566 sq. miles (8.214319 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.009319 sq. miles (0.024137 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.180885 sq. miles (8.238456 sq. km) FIPS code: 70900 Located within: South ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., sicamour "mulberry-leaved fig tree," from Old French sicamor , sagremore , from Latin sycomorus , from Greek sykomoros "African fig-tree," literally "fig-mulberry," from sykon "fig" (see fig ) + moron (see mulberry ). But according to many sources ...
Wikipedia
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The sycamore ( Acronicta aceris ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae . It is distributed through most of Europe , from central England south to Morocco . To the east it is found from the Near East and Middle East to West Asia . The forewings of this species ...
Usage examples of sycamore.
The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.
I knew a sweet girl, with a bonny blue eye, Who was born in the shade The wild sycamore made, Where the brook sang its song All the summer-day long, And the moments went merrily by, Like the birdlings the moments flew by.
As it fell it seemed to grow two wings and start to spin like a sycamore bract, which slowed down the fall somewhat.
He found square log houses, caulked with moss, deer pounds, birchbark canoes and bows of sycamore with arrows feathered with goose quills.
Kinzer homestead, with its snug parlor and its cosey bits of rooms and chambers, seemed to nestle away, under the shadowy elms and sycamores, smaller and smaller with every year that came.
Leaving her on the marble bench, with its carvings of pheasants and peafowl and flowers that had not blossomed here in ten summers, Ingold bundled the horrible kill into one of the hempen sacks he habitually carried, and hung the thing from the branch of a sycamore dying at the edge of the slunch, wreathed in such spells as would keep rats and carrion feeders at bay until they could collect it on their outward journey.
Have Pommers ready at mid-day with my sycamore lance, and place my harness on the sumpter mule.
I had no imagination for making use of the sycamore balls or pyracantha berries or dried hydrangeas that could be spray-painted to great effectI was decoratively challenged.
On the surface, Governor Barnett ruled a lush and tranquil land blanketed with luxuriant forests of virgin pines, tupelo, sycamore, persimmon, magnolia, holly, sweet gum, and hickory, from gentle foothills in the north to cypress swamps curtained with Spanish moss and Gulf Coast resorts in the south.
In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty trees wave in different directions their firstclass foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.
He stared out over the flood plain, with its scattered stands of ancestral sycamore and gum, metasequoia and cypress.
There were monkey-puzzle trees that reached almost five hundred feet in height, giant magnolias and sycamores, metasequoias, huge palms, and giant tree ferns.
Caesar had imagined that no trees grew, but saw in surprise that there were whole groves of trees, sometimes small foreststhe fruiting persea, a local sycamore, black-thorn, oak, figsand that palms of all kinds grew besides the famous date.
We stood in the market-place, and the negroes uncorded the bales of figured cloths and opened the carved chests of sycamore.
He was moving with the utmost caution now, and he grew warier the closer he approached a certain broad street lined with sycamore figs, and an estate of noble proportions which fronted on it.