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sycamore
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context US English) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus ''Platanus'', especially ''Platanus occidentalis'' (American sycamore). 2 (context British English) A large British and European species of maple, ''Acer pseudoplatanus'', ...
WordNet
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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: ...
Wikipedia
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Sycamore is a name which is applied at various times and places to several different types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms. The name derives from the ancient Greek ( sūkomoros ) meaning "fig-mulberry". Species of trees known as sycamore: ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 159 Housing Units (2000): 90 Land area (2000): 0.027240 sq. miles (0.070551 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.027240 sq. miles (0.070551 sq. km) FIPS code: 75190 Located within: Kentucky ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buttonwood \But"ton*wood`\, n. (Bot.) The Platanus occidentalis , or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree , and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore . The California buttonwood ...
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.