sycamore-treen.
= sycamore n. (in various senses).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > fig-tree > types of
sycamore13..
sycamore-tree13..
sycamore-fig1615
Moreton Bay fig1849
Port Jackson fig1875
Pharaoh's fig1884
Illawarra1904
adam's fig1907
Moreton Bay1953
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > plane-trees > [noun]
platanusOE
planea1382
platana1382
plane treea1425
platan treea1425
plantain1535
plane1562
dwarf plane tree1578
chenar1638
buttonwood1670
platanus tree1670
Norway maple1731
water beech1735
American plane1781
sycamore1814
buttonball1818
London plane1860
sycamore-tree1872
13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS. f. ccxxvii.) Þis ilke Sicomours [sic] tre In wȝuche clomb vp Zachee.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xix. 4 He rennynge bifore, stiȝede in to a sycamoure tree [a1425 L.V. sicomoure tree].
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 715/43 Hic cicomorus, a cycomyrtre.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1300 The great Maple, not rightly called the Sycomore tree..is a stranger in England.
a1600 in Chappell Pop. Music (1855) I. 207 The poor soul sat sighing by a sicamore tree.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxviii. 47 He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost. View more context for this quotation
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 413 Buttonwood is the popular name of the so-called Sycamore-tree (Platanus occidentalis).
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Sycamore Tree... In New South Wales, the name is given to Brachyc[h]iton luridus.
1908 R. M. Watson in Athenæum 4 Apr. 418/3 The west shone pale through the boughs of the sycamore tree As the rooks sailed home to their haunt in the dusky park.
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