maple vs sycamore

sycamore vs maple

maple and sycamore both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
maple	Yes	No	No	No
sycamore	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sycamore is a hyponym of maple; that is, sycamore is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than maple:

maple: any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
sycamore: 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

Other hyponyms of maple include Acer saccharinum, silver maple, Acer saccharum, rock maple, sugar maple, Acer rubrum, red maple, scarlet maple, swamp maple, Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, moosewood, striped dogwood, striped maple, Acer macrophyllum, big-leaf maple, Oregon maple, Acer glabrum, dwarf maple, Rocky-mountain maple, Acer spicatum, mountain alder, mountain maple, Acer circinatum, vine maple, Acer campestre, field maple, hedge maple, Acer platanoides, Norway maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple, Acer negundo, ash-leaved maple, box elder, Acer argutum, pointed-leaf maple, Acer japonicum, full moon maple, Japanese maple, Acer palmatum, Japanese maple.

maple (noun)	sycamore (noun)
any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone	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
wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring	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

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