sycamore

noun

Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite

Word type: noun; verb; adjective; adverb

Line style: core relation; instance, member or derived; substance, domain or see-also

Direction: arrow points to the broader concept; dashed outline: no word in this language; Click any word to expand it.

Senses

Sense 1 noun

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

Types & categories

wood hypernym

Parts & wholes

plane tree substance holonym

Sense 2 noun

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

Types & categories

tree hypernym
London plane hyponym
American sycamore hyponym
oriental plane hyponym
California sycamore hyponym
Arizona sycamore hyponym

Parts & wholes

Platanus member holonym
sycamore substance meronym

Sense 3 noun

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

Types & categories

maple hypernym

Sense 4 noun

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

Types & categories

fig tree hypernym

Parts & wholes

Ficus member holonym

Table view of this graph

Sense	Relation	Group	Word
1	substance holonym	Parts & wholes	plane tree
1	hypernym	Types & categories	wood
2	member holonym	Parts & wholes	Platanus
2	substance meronym	Parts & wholes	sycamore
2	hypernym	Types & categories	tree
2	hyponym	Types & categories	London plane
2	hyponym	Types & categories	American sycamore
2	hyponym	Types & categories	oriental plane
2	hyponym	Types & categories	California sycamore
2	hyponym	Types & categories	Arizona sycamore
3	hypernym	Types & categories	maple
4	member holonym	Parts & wholes	Ficus
4	hypernym	Types & categories	fig tree