|
|
Definition of London plane
1. Noun. Very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree.
Group relationships: Genus Platanus, Platanus
Generic synonyms: Plane Tree, Platan, Sycamore
Lexicographical Neighbors of London Plane
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 ..."
Other Resources:
