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platanus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun platanus has 1 sense
- platanus(n = noun.plant) genus platanus - genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore; Array is a kind of rosid dicot genus
is a member of family platanaceae, plane-tree family, platanaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
platanus, n. [See Plane the tree.].
A genus of trees; the plane tree. [1913 Webster]
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