AMERICAN SYCAMORE Synonyms
3 hypernyms for american sycamore. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for AMERICAN SYCAMORE
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| buttonwood | noun n | |||||
noun • very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | ||||||
| sycamore | noun n | |||||
noun • variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree • 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 • 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 • 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 | ||||||
| plane tree | noun n | |||||
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 | ||||||
| american plane | noun, adjective n, adj | |||||
noun • very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | ||||||
| platanus occidentalis | noun n | |||||
noun • very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | ||||||