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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 flowersplay

  Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE used as a noun is very rare.


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CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE (noun)


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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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