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Definition of Plane tree
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Platanus, Platanus
Terms within: Lacewood, Sycamore
Specialized synonyms: London Plane, Platanus Acerifolia, American Plane, American Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus Occidentalis, Oriental Plane, Platanus Orientalis, California Sycamore, Platanus Racemosa, Arizona Sycamore, Platanus Wrightii
Generic synonyms: Tree
Medical Definition of Plane tree
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Plane Tree
Literary usage of Plane tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1787)
"The Plane-tree was an exotic in an- tient Italy; am! perhaps, on that account,
as well as from its ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"PLANE-TREE FAMILY. Large trees, with thin exfoliating bark, alternate petioled
... Plane-tree. Fig. 2212. =\ Platanus occidentali! L. Sp. PI. 999. 1753. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Our noblest maids shall to thy name bequeath 7o The boughs of lotos, form'd into
a wreath. This monument, thy maiden beauties' due, High on a plane tree ..."
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"It was an oppressive day, and, after dinner, Lucie proposed that the wine should
be carried out under the plane-tree, and they should sit there in the air. ..."
5. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"This circumstance took place about the time of the capture of the City of Bome ;
and to such high honour, in the course of time, did the plane-tree attain, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1787)
"The Plane-tree was an exotic in an- tient Italy; am! perhaps, on that account,
as well as from its ..."
7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"PLANE-TREE FAMILY. Large trees, with thin exfoliating bark, alternate petioled
... Plane-tree. Fig. 2212. =\ Platanus occidentali! L. Sp. PI. 999. 1753. ..."
8. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Our noblest maids shall to thy name bequeath 7o The boughs of lotos, form'd into
a wreath. This monument, thy maiden beauties' due, High on a plane tree ..."
9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"It was an oppressive day, and, after dinner, Lucie proposed that the wine should
be carried out under the plane-tree, and they should sit there in the air. ..."
10. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"This circumstance took place about the time of the capture of the City of Bome ;
and to such high honour, in the course of time, did the plane-tree attain, ..."
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