sycamore
6 definitions found
sycamore - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. ?, fr. ? broad; --
so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form.
See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.] (Bot.)
Any tree of the genus Platanus.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is a native
of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching
stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long
pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small
close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and
collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental
plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great
height, is a native of North America, where it is
popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and
buttonball, names also applied to the California
species (Platanus racemosa).
[1913 Webster]
Sycamore \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus, Gr. ? the fig mulberry;
? a fig + ? the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin:
cf. F. sycomore. Cf. Mulberry.] (Bot.)
(a) A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common
fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore,
or sycamine, of Scripture.
(b) The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
(c) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus
). [Written sometimes sycomore.]
[1913 Webster]
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 is
Platanus racemosa.
[1913 Webster]
sycamore - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
sycamore
n 1: variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough
elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: sycamore,
lacewood]
2: 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: plane tree, sycamore,
platan]
3: 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 [syn: sycamore, great maple, scottish maple
, Acer pseudoplatanus]
4: 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 [syn:
sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus
]
sycamore - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Sycamore
more properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr.
sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the
fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence
it is called the fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus). At Jericho,
Zacchaeus climbed a sycomore-tree to see Jesus as he passed by
(Luke 19:4). This tree was easily destroyed by frost (Ps.
78:47), and therefore it is found mostly in the "vale" (1 Kings
10:27; 2 Chr. 1:15: in both passages the R.V. has properly
"lowland"), i.e., the "low country," the shephelah, where the
climate is mild. Amos (7:14) refers to its fruit, which is of an
inferior character; so also probably Jeremiah (24:2). It is to
be distinguished from our sycamore (the Acer pseudo-platanus),
which is a species of maple often called a plane-tree.
sycamore - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Sycamore, GA (city, FIPS 75104)
Location: 31.67024 N, 83.63507 W
Population (1990): 417 (198 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31790
Sycamore, IL (city, FIPS 74223)
Location: 41.98170 N, 88.69577 W
Population (1990): 9708 (3935 housing units)
Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60178
Sycamore, KY (city, FIPS 75190)
Location: 38.24664 N, 85.56072 W
Population (1990): 70 (34 housing units)
Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Sycamore, MO
Zip code(s): 65758
Sycamore, OH (village, FIPS 75980)
Location: 40.95101 N, 83.17090 W
Population (1990): 919 (378 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 44882, 45242, 45249
Sycamore, PA
Zip code(s): 15364
Sycamore, SC (town, FIPS 70900)
Location: 33.03650 N, 81.22264 W
Population (1990): 208 (96 housing units)
Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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