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Buttonwood vs. Sycamore — What's the Difference?

Buttonwood vs. Sycamore — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Buttonwood and Sycamore

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Buttonwood

See sycamore.

Sycamore

Sycamore is a name which has been applied to several types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms. The name derives from the ancient Greek συκόμορος (sūkomoros) meaning "fig-mulberry".

Buttonwood

An evergreen shrub or tree (Conocarpus erectus) of coastal wetlands of tropical America and western Africa, having alternate leathery leaves and small buttonlike heads of greenish flowers.

Sycamore

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Platanus, especially P. occidentalis of eastern North America, having palmately lobed leaves, ball-like, nodding, hairy fruit clusters, and bark that flakes off in large pieces. Also called buttonball, buttonwood.

Buttonwood

The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
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Sycamore

A Eurasian deciduous maple tree (Acer pseudoplatanus) having palmately lobed leaves, winged fruits, and greenish flowers.

Buttonwood

The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species.

Sycamore

A fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) of Africa and adjacent southwest Asia, mentioned in the Bible, having clusters of figs borne on short leafless twigs.

Buttonwood

The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae).

Sycamore

(US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.

Buttonwood

California sycamore or western sycamore (Platanus racemosa).

Sycamore

(British) A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.

Buttonwood

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; - called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa.

Sycamore

(originally) A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.

Buttonwood

Very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

Sycamore

A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

Sycamore

Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

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

Sycamore

Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn

Sycamore

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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