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CALIFORNIA SYCAMORE
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I. (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
Synonyms:
California sycamore; Platanus racemosa
Classified under:
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)