Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore).
User Defined Definitions
"variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree"
"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"
"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"
"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 t"