(n): the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
(n): 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
(n): a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
(n): 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
(n): any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
(n): 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
(n): any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature
on spotted branch
of the sycamore
two black rooks hunch
from "Prospect," Sylvia Plath