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sycamore |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr L. platanus, Gr ?, fr ? broad; -- so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form See {Place}, and cf {Platane}, {Plantain} the tree.] (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane ({Platanus orientalis}) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane ({Platanus occidentalis}), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called {sycamore}, {buttonwood}, and {buttonball}, names also applied to the California species ({Platanus racemosa}). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sycamore \Syc"a*more\, n. [L. sycomorus Gr ? the fig mulberry; ? a fig + ? the black mulberry; or perhaps of Semitic origin: cf F. sycomore. Cf {Mulberry}.] (Bot.) a A large tree ({Ficus Sycomorus}) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. b The American plane tree, or buttonwood. c A large European species of maple ({Acer Pseudo-Platanus}). [Written sometimes {sycomore}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Buttonwood \But"ton*wood`\, n. (Bot.) The {Platanus occidentalis}, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named -- called also {buttonball tree}, and in some parts of the United States, {sycamore}. The California buttonwood is {P. racemosa}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sycamore n 1: variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: {lacewood}] 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 [syn: {plane tree}, {platan}] 3: Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn [syn: {great maple}, {scottish maple}, {Acer pseudoplatanus}] 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 [syn: {sycamore fig}, {mulberry fig}, {Ficus sycomorus}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Sycamore, GA (city, FIPS 75104) Location: 31.67024 N, 83.63507 W Population (1990): 417 (198 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31790 Sycamore, IL (city, FIPS 74223) Location: 41.98170 N, 88.69577 W Population (1990): 9708 (3935 housing units) Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60178 Sycamore, KY (city, FIPS 75190) Location: 38.24664 N, 85.56072 W Population (1990): 70 (34 housing units) Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Sycamore, MO Zip code(s): 65758 Sycamore, OH (village, FIPS 75980) Location: 40.95101 N, 83.17090 W Population (1990): 919 (378 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44882, 45242, 45249 Sycamore, PA Zip code(s): 15364 Sycamore, SC (town, FIPS 70900) Location: 33.03650 N, 81.22264 W Population (1990): 208 (96 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Sycamore more properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim Gr sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus). At Jericho, Zacchaeus climbed a sycomore-tree to see Jesus as he passed by (Luke 19:4). This tree was easily destroyed by frost (Ps. 78:47), and therefore it is found mostly in the vale" (1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chr. 1:15: in both passages the R.V. has properly "lowland"), i.e., the "low country," the shephelah where the climate is mild. Amos (7:14) refers to its fruit, which is of an inferior character; so also probably Jeremiah (24:2). It is to be distinguished from our sycamore (the Acer pseudo-platanus), which is a species of maple often called a plane-tree.
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