PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

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Meaning:

Very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

Synonyms:

American plane; American sycamore; buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Platanus occidentalis" is a kind of...):

plane tree; platan; 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)

Holonyms ("Platanus occidentalis" is a member of...):

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

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