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PLANE TREE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

plane tree; platan; sycamore

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plane tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "plane tree"):

lacewood; sycamore (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plane tree"):

London plane; Platanus acerifolia (very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree)

American plane; American sycamore; buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis (very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico)

oriental plane; Platanus orientalis (large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor)

California sycamore; Platanus racemosa (tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers)

Arizona sycamore; Platanus wrightii (medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5)

Holonyms ("plane tree" is a member of...):

genus Platanus; Platanus (genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore)

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