Definition of London plane

1. Noun. Very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree.

Exact synonyms: Platanus Acerifolia
Group relationships: Genus Platanus, Platanus
Generic synonyms: Plane Tree, Platan, Sycamore

Lexicographical Neighbors of London Plane

Lon
Lon protease
Lonas
Lonas annua
Lonas inodora
Lonchocarpus
London
London Bridge
London Town
London Underground
London broil
London broils
London forces
London moment
London moments
London plane (current term)
London pride
London weighting
Londonderry
Londoner
Londoners
Londonesque
Londongrad
Londonian
Londonians
Londonish
Londonism
Londonisms
Londonistan
Londonize

Literary usage of London plane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"The Plane which thrives best in London, or what is often called the London plane, is not (as it used to be thought) the American or Western Plane, ..."

2. The Message of the Trees: An Anthology of Leaves and Branches by Maud Cuney-Hare, William Stanley Braithwaite (1918)
"A London plane-TREE . Alice Wilson. Green is the plane-tree in the square, The other trees are brown; They droop and pine for country air; The plane-tree ..."

3. London Trees: Being an Account of the Trees that Succeed in London, with a by Angus Duncan Webster (1920)
"The Elm, Lime, Poplar, Acacia, Ailanthus, and some others are all more or less common, but the London plane has ousted almost every other tree from the ..."

4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"The London plane or maple-leaf plane has two or three balls on each string, which are prickly to look at, as the styles persist. ..."

5. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Historical and Descriptive by William Jackson Bean, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1908)
"Entering the Rhododendron Dell from the north end, the visitor is London plane ... an enormous specimen of the London plane growing on the right-hand side. ..."

6. Landscapes of the Costa Brava and Barcelona: A Countryside Guide by Michael Lockwood, Teresa Farino (2003)
"After three minutes, bear left at the first junction, entering attractive mixed woodland composed of large-leaved lime, London plane, holm oak and the rare ..."

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