London plane vs sycamore

sycamore vs London plane

London plane and sycamore both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
London plane	Yes	No	No	No
sycamore	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sycamore is a hypernym of London plane; that is, sycamore is a word with a broader meaning than London plane:

London plane: very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree
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

Other hypernyms of London plane include plane tree, platan.

London plane (noun)	sycamore (noun)
very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street 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
	variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
	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 twigs; the biblical sycamore

Difference between London plane and sycamore

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