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Platanus orientalis vs sycamore

sycamore vs Platanus orientalis

Platanus orientalis and sycamore both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Platanus orientalis Yes No No No
sycamore Yes No No No
As nouns, sycamore is a hypernym of Platanus orientalis; that is, sycamore is a word with a broader meaning than Platanus orientalis:
  • Platanus orientalis: large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor
  • 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 Platanus orientalis include plane tree, platan.
Platanus orientalis (noun) sycamore (noun)
large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor 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 Platanus orientalis and sycamore

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