How many syllables in sycamore?

There are 3 syllables in the word sycamore.

How to pronounce sycamore:

sycamore (noun):: a fig tree (ficus sycomorus) of africa and the middle east that is the sycamore of scripture and has edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig; 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.

acer pseudoplatanus

aeroplane

aircraft

airliner

airplane

airship

ficus

ficus sycomorus

fig tree

genus ficus

great maple

jet

lacewood

mulberry fig

plane tree

platan

scottish maple

ship

sycamore fig

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