sycamore

/sˈɪkəmˌɔɹ/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
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
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
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

Synonyms for sycamore

• lacewood
• plane tree
• platan
• great maple
• scottish maple
• Acer pseudoplatanus
• sycamore fig
• mulberry fig
• Ficus sycomorus

Words that rhyme with sycamore

• score
• floor
• core
• roar
• bore
• gore
• pour
• soar
• store
• door
• ignore
• more
• restore
• shore
• war
• explore
• pore
• sore
• whore
• backdoor
• drawer
• fore
• four
• inshore
• offshore
• onshore
• snore
• underscore
• albacore
• before