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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 [syn: plane tree, sycamore, platan]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin platanus — more at plane Date: 14th century plane II

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. = PLANE(3). Etymology: ME f. L platanus: see PLANE(3)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Platan Plat"an, n. [L. platanus. See Plane the tree.] [Written also platane.] The plane tree. --Tennyson.





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