单词 | sycamore |
释义 | sycamore (once / 2945 pages) n WORD FAMILY sycamore: sycamores USAGE EXAMPLESThe Sycamores, however, scored just 14 points off the turnovers. Washington Times(Nov 25, 2016) Ask San Diego bartenders where they like to drink, and many will tell you Sycamore Den in Normal Heights, a 15-minute drive away. Wall Street Journal(Nov 24, 2016) One jam is created by a fully grown sycamore lying across the river, which has already started to gather debris behind it. Washington Times(Nov 22, 2016) 1n 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|Hypo|Hyper plane tree, platan London plane, Platanus acerifolia very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, buttonwoodvery large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico Platanus orientalis, oriental planelarge tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor California sycamore, Platanus racemosatall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightiimedium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5 tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2n variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree Syn|Hyper lacewood wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees 3n 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|Hyper Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple maple any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone 4n 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|Hyper Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig fig tree any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature |
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