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plane tree en · NOUN

Etymology

From plane + tree.

Meanings

1. Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
   • The day was still beautiful, but by now the sun was very hot and the plane-trees, spaced about twenty feet apart on the grass verge between the pavement and the broad tarmac, gave a cool shade. 1953, Ian Fleming, “Two Men In Straw Hats”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 42:
2. An ordered tree, a type of graph, in which the child nodes of each vertex have a definite number assigned.

Forms

Deriveds

American planetree

Translations (14)

gd pleantrainn (tree) · ru плата́н (tree) · ka ჭადარი (tree) · sq çinar (tree) · he דֹּלֶב (tree) · sv platan (tree) · he דולב (tree) · he עַרְמוֹן (tree) · el πλάτανος (tree) · gd pleintri (tree) · sq rrap (tree) · de Platane (tree) · pl platan (tree) · ru чина́ра (tree)