1. (

• sycamore ,
• lacewood

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

2. (

• plane_tree ,
• sycamore ,
• platan

) 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 ;

3. (

• sycamore ,
• great_maple ,
• scottish_maple ,
• Acer_pseudoplatanus

) 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 ;

4. (

• sycamore ,
• sycamore_fig ,
• mulberry_fig ,
• Ficus_sycomorus

) 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 ;