Word Finder - sycamores

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Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).

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A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.

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A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig and found in Egypt and Syria; also called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry; the Biblical sycomore.

On every side the town is surrounded by royal parks and woods of sycamores, plane-trees and elms, often of extraordinary size.

Silver was regarded as stones; the precious cedars of Lebanon as sycamores.

In 1662, as appears by a map still extant, there were i 50 houses within the wall, forming five streets and as many lanes; and the upland districts around were one dense forest of giant oaks and sycamores, yielding an unfailing supply of timber to the woodmen of Carrickfergus.

The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), miomba, tamarisk, copal tree (Hymenaea courbaril) are frequent, besides sycamores, banyan trees (Ficus indica) and the deleb palm (Borassus aethiopum).

Among the many varieties of trees and plants found are the date palm, mimosa, wild olive, giant sycamores, junipers and laurels, the myrrh and other gum trees (gnarled and stunted, these flourish most on the eastern foothills), a magnificent pine (the Natal yellow pine, which resists the attacks of the white ant), the fig, orange, lime, pomegranate, peach, apricot, banana and other fruit trees; the grape vine (rare), blackberry and raspberry; the cotton and indigo plants, and occasionally the sugar cane.

Leaves on the horse chestnuts have opened out, as have some more sycamores.

Canada Road and Quebec Way are lined by quite young sycamores and maples.

From its left-hand gable turn left through a gate to the burial ground with tall sycamores.

They also harm sycamores, dogwoods, and many other shade trees.