SYCAMORE
Scrabble letter values: S1Y4C3A1M3O1R1E1 = 15
Definition
- noun variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree. — synonyms: lacewood
- noun 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. — synonyms: plane_tree, platan
- noun Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree. — synonyms: great_maple, scottish_maple, Acer_pseudoplatanus
- noun thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground. — synonyms: sycamore_fig, mulberry_fig, Ficus_sycomorus
Examples
- “leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn”
- “produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs”
- “the biblical sycamore”