sycamores

1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore treeSynonyms: lacewood, sycamore

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 fruitsSynonyms: plane tree, platan, sycamore

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 autumnSynonyms: Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple, sycamore

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 sycamoreSynonyms: Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore, sycamore fig