sycamore
梧桐树,梧桐,梧桐木,西克莫
Definitions
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- : Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- : British. the sycamore maple.
- : a tree, Ficus sycomorus, of the Near East, related to the common fig, bearing an edible fruit.
Examples
Beside the Scola Brothers Grocery is a sycamore, its branches silhouetted against the white wall.
“A Time to Kill is very autobiographical, and so is Sycamore Row,” Grisham acknowledged.
The two came to America in 1946, and he grew up in Sycamore.
In 1977, back-up singer/girlfriend Gloria Jones wrapped their purple Mini around a sycamore tree.
I found Miss Goodwin still sitting where I had left her, under the sycamore before the house.
We moved across the dewy lawn to a bench beneath the sycamore that guarded the house, and sat down.
Its banks are lined with tall forests of cotton-wood and sycamore, and its bottoms are wide and fertile.
He must have been as much surprised, when going out of the chapel as Zaccheus was when he dropped down out of the sycamore tree.
The sycamore was sure to fall anyway, and in falling it would certainly crush some of the trees around it.