sycamore vs buttonwood

buttonwood vs sycamore

sycamore and buttonwood both are nouns.

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

As nouns, buttonwood is a hyponym of sycamore; that is, buttonwood 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
buttonwood: very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

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

sycamore (noun)	buttonwood (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 spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
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 buttonwood

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