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Meanings of sycamore in English

Portuguese
sicômoro
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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.

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sicômoro
Russian
acronicta aceris
Portuguese
acronicta aceris
Spanish
acronicta aceris
Catalan
acronicta aceris
Wikidata

Species of moth.

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acronicta aceris
Catalan
scottish maple
Spanish
sicómoro

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.

scottish maple
Catalan
plataner

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.

plataner
Usage of sycamore in English
1
There was a thrush singing in the dusk of the sycamore leaves.
Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
2
He took out his sycamore scroll and placed it by the candle.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
3
Maybe the church, with the sycamore growing from within, had been haunted.
The Alchemist
4
Perhaps it was a boyish feeling that took me to the sycamore.
Montlivet
5
The solitary sycamore in the ravine is known as Robin Hood's Tree.
The Guardian
6
Encamped under a spreading sycamore, at the junction of two mountain streams.
Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet
7
I'm twisted out of shape, like the crooked sycamore by the mill-race.
The Miller Of Old Church
8
It spreads into a shallow pool, shaded by a fine sycamore tree.
The Lands of the Saracen / Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Si...
9
Harris tethered his horse to a sycamore and stepped across the creek.
Serena
10
She gestured for him to come to her under the big sycamore.
Dayworld
11
Unc' Fletch trails along, an' Ballyhoo stops at a big sycamore tree.
Ted Strong in Montana / Or, With Lariat and Spur
12
The moon shines on the nightingale singing in the sycamore tree.
Working With the Working Woman
13
They broke open the sycamore chest; it was three parts empty.
Salammbo
14
Suddenly, through the open window, little Amedee saw the sycamore in the yard.
A Romance of Youth — Volume 1
15
All I could think, that night, was please don't let the sycamore go.
Commuters: a novel
16
The latter hastened towards the sycamore avenue of the oil-market, and disappeared there.
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Sycamore through the time
Sycamore across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common