sycamore

noun

• 1a large Eurasian maple with winged fruits, native to central and southern Europe. It is planted as a fast-growing ornamental but tends to displace native trees.

  • Acer pseudoplatanus, family Aceraceae

• 2North American the buttonwood tree.

• 3 (also sycomore or sycomore fig) (in biblical use) a fig tree that grows in the Middle East.

  • Ficus sycomorus, family Moraceae