sycamore

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1. 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 (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fig tree,
definition	:	any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	ficus, genus ficus,
definition	:	large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees (noun.plant)

2. 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 (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	maple,
definition	:	any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone (noun.plant)

3. 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 (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	tree,
definition	:	a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	london plane, platanus acerifolia,
definition	:	very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	american plane, american sycamore, buttonwood, platanus occidentalis,
definition	:	very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	oriental plane, platanus orientalis,
definition	:	large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	california sycamore, platanus racemosa,
definition	:	tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	arizona sycamore, platanus wrightii,
definition	:	medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5 (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus platanus, platanus,
definition	:	genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore (noun.plant)

substance holonym	:	lacewood, sycamore,
definition	:	variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree (noun.plant)

4. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood,
definition	:	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	plane tree, platan, sycamore,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

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