{{Other uses}} '''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 {{lang|grc|σῡκόμορος}} ({{translit|grc|sykómoros}}) meaning {{gloss|fig-mulberry}}.
Species of otherwise unrelated trees known as sycamore: * ''Acer pseudoplatanus'', a species of maple native to central Europe and southwestern Asia * ''Ficus sycomorus'', the sycamore (or sycomore) of the Bible; a species of fig, also called the sycamore fig or fig-mulberry, native to the Middle East and eastern Africa * ''Platanus orientalis'', chinar tree (Old World sycamore)
* Some North American members of the genus ''Platanus'', including ** ''Platanus occidentalis'', the American sycamore ** ''Platanus racemosa'', the California sycamore or western sycamore ** ''Platanus wrightii'', the Arizona sycamore ** ''Platanus mexicana,'' the Mexican sycamore * In Australia, there are numerous trees which have the common name "sycamore": ** ''Litsea reticulata'' or ''Cryptocarya glaucescens'' (silver sycamore) ** ''Polyscias elegans'' (white sycamore) ** ''Cryptocarya obovata'' (white sycamore) ** ''Ceratopetalum succirubrum'' (satin sycamore) ** ''Cardwellia sublimis'' ** ''Cryptocarya hypospodia'' (bastard sycamore) ** ''Ceratopetalum virchowii'' (pink sycamore) ** ''Ceratopetalum corymbosum'' (mountain sycamore)<ref name="RFK8">{{cite web |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/ceratopetalum_corymbosum.htm |title=Ceratopetalum corymbosum |author=F.A. Zich |author2=B.P.M Hyland |author3=T. Whiffen |author4=R.A. Kerrigan |website=Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8 |year=2020 |publisher=Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) |access-date=6 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Polyscias.html|title=M.M.P.N.D. - Sorting Polyscias names}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.woodsolutions.com.au/Wood-Species/satin-sycamore|title=Satin sycamore, also known as Ceratopetalum succirubrum - Species|author=Chris Coughran|access-date=2015-07-09|archive-date=2015-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710150439/http://www.woodsolutions.com.au/Wood-Species/satin-sycamore|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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