Anagrams of: PROSTATECTOMY

• a category of physique

• the practice of an optometrist

• a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity

• variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

• 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

• of or relating to or resembling a comet

• cast repeatedly in the same kind of role

• identify as belonging to a certain type

• tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum

• leaves used sparingly (because of bitter overtones) in sauces and soups and stuffings