sycamore

noun

thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground

Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree

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

variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

Roots

sykonsyca- · Greek · fig moron-more · Greek · mulberry

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