sycamore vs London plane

London plane vs sycamore

sycamore and London plane both are nouns.

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

As nouns, London plane is a hyponym of sycamore; that is, London plane 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
London plane: very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree

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

sycamore (noun)	London plane (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	very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree
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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