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CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does California sycamore mean?
• CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE (noun)
The noun CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE has 1 sense:
1. tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California sycamore; Platanus racemosa
Hypernyms ("California sycamore" is a kind of...):
plane tree; platan; sycamore (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)
Holonyms ("California sycamore" is a member of...):
genus Platanus; Platanus (genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore)
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