sycamore vs California sycamore

California sycamore vs sycamore

sycamore and California sycamore both are nouns.

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

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

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
California sycamore: tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers

Other hyponyms of sycamore include London plane, Platanus acerifolia, American plane, American sycamore, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis, oriental plane, Platanus orientalis, Platanus racemosa, Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii.

sycamore (noun)	California sycamore (noun)
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	tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
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 sycamore and California sycamore

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