The Clue
Shade trees (9 letter answer)
The Answer
SYCAMORES
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Notes
The answer SYCAMORES is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
SYCAMORE as a noun:
1. (sycamore, lacewood) = variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
2. (plane tree, sycamore, platan) = 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
3. (sycamore, great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus) = 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
4. (sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus) = 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