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platan
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun platan has 1 sense
- platan(n = noun.plant) plane tree, sycamore - 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; Array is a member of genus platanus, platanus
has particulars: london plane, platanus acerifolia, american plane, american sycamore, buttonwood, platanus occidentalis, oriental plane, platanus orientalis, california sycamore, platanus racemosa, arizona sycamore, platanus wrightii
is a kind of tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
platan, n. [L. platanus. See Plane the tree.].
The plane tree. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
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