Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - sycamore
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(sycamores) A sycamore or a sycamore tree is a tree that has yellow flowers and large leaves with five points. N-VAR • Sycamore is the wood of this tree. The furniture is made of sycamore, beech and leather. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English sicamour, from Anglo-French sicamour, from Latin sycomorus, from Greek sykomoros, probably modification of a Semitic word akin to Hebrew shiqmah ~ Date: 14th century 1. (also sycomore) a fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) of Africa and the Middle East that is the ~ of Scripture and has edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig 2. a Eurasian maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) with long racemes of showy yellowish-green flowers that is widely planted as a shade tree 3. plane II; especially a very large spreading tree (Platanus occidentalis) chiefly of the eastern and central United States with 3- to 5-lobed broadly ovate leaves ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 (in full sycamore maple) a a large maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, with winged seeds, grown for its shade and timber. b its wood. 2 US the plane-tree or its wood. 3 Bibl. a fig-tree, Ficus sycomorus, growing in Egypt, Syria, etc. Etymology: var. of SYCOMORE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. бот. бот. клен псевдоплатановый, явор (Acer pseudoplatanus) 2. платан, чинар (Platanus gen.) 3. сикамор античный (Ficus sycomorus) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun; bot. 1) сикамор (тж. sycamore fig) 2) клен явор (тж. sycamore maple) 3) платан ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1350, from O.Fr. sicamor, from L. sycomorus, from Gk. sykomoros, from sykon "fig" + moron "mulberry." Or perhaps a folk-etymology for Heb. shiqmah "mulberry." A Biblical word, originally used for a species of fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) common in Egypt, Syria, etc., whose leaves somewhat resemble those of the mulberry; applied from 1588 to Acer pseudoplatanus, a large species of European maple, and from 1814 to the North American shade tree that is also called buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis, introduced to Europe from Virginia 1637 by Filius Tradescant). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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