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Sycamore
- 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
- 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
- variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Syllable
- noun - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
Symploce
- noun - repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe
Syndrome
- noun - a complex of concurrent things; "every word has a syndrome of meanings"
- a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
Syracuse
- noun - a city in central New York
- a city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC
- the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse
- the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes)