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单词 sycamore
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sycamoren.

/ˈsɪkəmɔː/
Forms: Middle English–1600s sicamour, (Middle English sikamour, sicomour, sicomore, syca-, sykamoure, Middle English sycomour, sycomowre, secomoure, sichomure, cicomour, cycomyr, sygamour(e), 1500s–1600s siccamore, sycamour, (1500s segamore, 1600s sicamor(e, cycamore), Middle English– sycomore, 1600s– sycamore.
Etymology: < Old French sic(h)amor, -more, later sicomore, modern French sycomore, = Italian sicomoro , Spanish sicomoro , Portuguese sicomoro , < late Latin si- , sycomorus , < Greek σῡκόμορος , < σῦκον fig + μόρον mulberry. The spelling sycamore is the more usual, but sycomore is retained in modern editions of the Bible, and is used by some writers in sense 1 for the sake of distinction.
1. A species of fig tree, Ficus Sycomorus, common in Egypt, Syria, and other countries, and having leaves somewhat resembling those of the mulberry.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > fig-tree > types of
sycamore13..
sycamore-tree13..
sycamore-fig1615
Moreton Bay fig1849
Port Jackson fig1875
Pharaoh's fig1884
Illawarra1904
adam's fig1907
Moreton Bay1953
13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXXI. 319/14 In to a treo he wente þerfore, A Sikamour, to seon him þore.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4973 Oleues out of lebany..With sichomures & sipresses.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. ix. 10 Thei han kit doun sicomoris.
c1440 York Myst. xxv. 427 A nobill tree þou secomoure.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 269/2 Sicomer, frute. Sicomour, tree.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. vii. 389 The Sycomore..is called the Ægyptian Figtree. The tree for leafe, bignesse, and barke, is like unto the Mulberie tree.
1633 G. Herbert World in Temple iii That Sycomore, Whose leaves first sheltred man from drought and dew.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad (ed. 2) V. xxi. 44 As from a sycamore, his sounding steel Lopp'd the green arms to spoke a chariot wheel.
1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) i. 3 We climbed the steep sandy bank and sat down beneath a solitary sycamore.
1910 Mrs. H. M. Tirard Bk. of Dead iii. 73 In Egypt sycomores often grow on the edge of the desert.
2. A large species of maple, Acer Pseudoplatanus, introduced into Britain from the Continent, and grown as a shady ornamental tree and for its wood.Also with distinguishing adjective, bastard sycamore, false sycamore, vulgar sycamore.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 89 Vnder the coole shade of a Siccamone [sic; 1623 Siccamore], I thought to close mine eyes some halfe an houre. View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 121 We..sate as quietly..under this Sycamore, as Virgils Tityrus and his Melibœus did under their broad beech tree. View more context for this quotation
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xv. 94 Sycomore, or great Maple.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Sycamore vulgar, i.e. Acer majus.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 329 Sycamore, False, Acer.
1765 T. Gray Let. c30 Sept. in Corr. (1971) II. 889 The enclosures, that surround the house, are border'd with 3 or 4 ranks of sycomores, ashes, & white poplars of the noblest height.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 639 [Acer pseudo-platanus] The Great Maple, or Bastard Sycomore. Anglis.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxvii. 129 Thou, with all thy breadth and height Of foliage, towering sycamore . View more context for this quotation
1889 A. C. Benson Altar Fire (1907) 89 There were many ancient elms and sycamores forming a small park.
3.
a. In North America, a plane or tree of the genus Platanus, esp. the buttonwood, P. occidentalis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > plane-trees > [noun]
platanusOE
planea1382
platana1382
plane treea1425
platan treea1425
plantain1535
plane1562
dwarf plane tree1578
chenar1638
buttonwood1670
platanus tree1670
Norway maple1731
water beech1735
American plane1781
sycamore1814
buttonball1818
London plane1860
sycamore-tree1872
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. 635 Platanus occidentalis... On the banks of rivers: Canada to Florida, and in Louisiana... This tree is known by the name of Button-wood, Water Beech, Sycamore and Plane Tree; in Canada Cotton Tree.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 413 Buttonwood..The tree is known also as Sycamore and Plane-Tree.
b. In Australia and elsewhere applied (with or without epithet) to various trees: see quots.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species
pepper tree1773
apple tree1801
white boxc1830
Christmas tree1844
mapau1853
maple1858
leopard-wood1859
red ash1863
sycamore1866
New Zealand orange tree1898
five-finger1926
leopard-tree1927
maple1934
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Melia M[elia] Azedarach, vulgarly known as the Pride of India, False Sycamore, Holy-tree.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Melia Sycamore..New South Wales. Brachychiton luridum.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 368 Achras laurifolia..Called ‘Sycamore’ in Southern New South Wales.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 410 Cryptocarya obovata.. ‘Sycamore’, ‘White Sycamore’, ‘Bastard Sycamore’.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. at Laurel Native L[aurel]..Panax elegans..also called Light or White Sycamore.
4. The wood or timber of the sycamore (usually in sense 2).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > sycamore
sycamorec1384
harewood1664
greywood1881
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 188 Ther saugh I Colle tregetour Vpon a table of Sygamour Pley an vncouthe thynge to telle.
1506 Paston Lett. III. 408 A payre of beddes of segamore.
c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 272 His sadle with sekamoure [printed selc-] was sett.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 487 Old houses..floored with sycamore and wainscotted with poplar.
5. Short for sycamore-moth n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of genus Acronycta > acronycta aceris (sycamore)
sycamore-moth1749
sycamore1843
1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. 193 Apatela aceris (the sycamore).
1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 251/2 The Sycamore (Acronycta Aceris)... This caterpillar feeds on the sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
sycamore fruit n.
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1611 Bible (King James) Amos vii. 14 I was an heardman, and a gatherer of Sycomore fruit.
sycamore key n. key n.1 13.
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1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 138 Setting..Ash-keyes, Cycamore-keyes.
sycamore leaf n.
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1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 32 The Sycomore-Locust..is a pretty little yellow Insect, which is bred, and feeds on the Sycomore-leaves, which at first hath no wings, but six leggs and two horns.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 154 The Leaves are a little less than the Sicamore Leaves.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 198 Wherever decaying sycamore-leaves are found.
sycamore wood n.
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1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 195 Sycamore wood.
C2.
sycamore-fig n. the fig tree Ficus Sycomorus, or its fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > fig > other types of
figs of Pharaoh?c1225
caprifigc1420
grossc1420
fig-dote1481
figling1612
sycamore-fig1615
fig-flower1719
fig-peepul1859
Smyrna fig1897
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > fig-tree > types of
sycamore13..
sycamore-tree13..
sycamore-fig1615
Moreton Bay fig1849
Port Jackson fig1875
Pharaoh's fig1884
Illawarra1904
adam's fig1907
Moreton Bay1953
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 121 Variety of excellent fruites; as orenges, lemons, pomegranats,..Sicamor figs.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 639 The Sycamore Fig, is said to have yielded the wood from which mummy-cases were made.
1899 M. Benson & J. Gourlay Temple of Mut i. 3 Groves of palm mingled with the thicker foliage of the sycamore-fig and tamarisk.
sycamore-locust n. Obsolete (see quot. 1664 for sycamore leaf n. at Compounds 1).
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1664Sycamore locust [see sycamore leaf n. at Compounds 1].
sycamore maple n. = sense 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 369 Sycamore Tree. Sycamore Maple.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 76/2 Acer striatum, the striped-bark maple..frequently grows to thrice its native size, in consequence of being grafted upon the sycamore maple.
sycamore-moth n. (also sycamore-tussock-moth) a noctuid moth, Acronycta (Apatela) aceris, the larva of which feeds on the sycamore (sense 2).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of genus Acronycta > acronycta aceris (sycamore)
sycamore-moth1749
sycamore1843
1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 32 The Sycamore Tussock-Moth. You may find the Caterpillars on Sycamore Trees.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Sycamore-moth,..a peculiarly large and beautiful moth,..so called, from its caterpillar feeding on the leaves of the sycamore.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 78 The Sycamore Tussock (Apatela Aceris, Stephens) appears the end of June.
1861 F. O. Morris Brit. Moths II. 73 Acronycta Aceris. Sycamore Moth... It feeds on the sycamore and the horse-chesnut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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